Senior Software Engineer

Compass • New York City, NY

108d • $111,000 - $167,000

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Agent Client Tools organization, you will use your experience with microservices based architecture to build products that deliver high business impact for our customers. You will lead design and develop services to support an industry leading consumer experience while also supporting the growth of the world's most scalable brokerage. You are an engineer who is passionate about creating great products that are easy to use. You feel it is critical that your voice is heard in product and business decisions. You love to learn, and equally love to share your knowledge with others. You are a great communicator and you take care to understand before making yourself understood. You design systems are fault tolerant, scalable, highly available, well-tested, eventually consistent, and follow best practices such as the single responsibility principle. Your code is designed for modularity and re-use. You take pride in delivering solid code that is well-tested, peer-reviewed, and follows best practices. You have strong opinions on code structure, style, and development processes.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• A track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact.
• 5+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications.
• 5+ years of programming experience in languages such as Java or Go.
• Experience with gRPC, Thrift, and other server-to-server communication protocols.
• Experience with Kafka and event-driven systems.
• 3+ years using AWS / cloud technologies.
• High proficiency designing and implementing microservices.
• Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Strong critical thinking skills, great communication skills and passion for delivering operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and scale the platform that empowers real estate professionals, buyers, and sellers.
• Become a domain expert in real estate technology, serving as an empathetic partner to our customers.
• Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers.
• Lead in the architecting of our distributed microservices architecture.
• Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies.
• Execute on standard agile development methodology.
• Join a great team with a lot of visibility and some challenging projects on the horizon.

Benefits

• Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
• Full range of benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees