Staff Software Engineer - Front End

Compass•New York, NY

4d•$228,000 - $240,000

About The Position

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Transaction Journey (TJ) organization, you will use your deep Frontend web expertise to build products that deliver high business impact to our customers. You will lead the design and development of a collaborative transaction management platform that streamlines the process of buying and selling homes, which spans key areas such as: transaction forms, eSign, compliance review, and commissions processing. You will lead teams to deliver features that make it easier for agents to work with clients and other parties to complete critical tasks throughout the transaction, so that they can spend less time managing it, and more time with their clients, and building their business. You will collaborate cross-functionally with multiple teams as well as with our product and design teams to identify and deliver the right solutions for our customers and support 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 that 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
10+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications in Typescript, Javascript, and HTML/CSS
5+ years of experience with React and NodeJS
3+ years of experience using AWS / cloud technologies
A track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact
Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture while keeping abreast of evolving technologies in AI
A sheer eye for design and attention to detail, the products you build should not merely be functional but should take in context and anticipate our customer’s needs in a beautiful way
Strong critical thinking skills, great communication skills and passion for delivering operational excellence
Strong familiarity with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, containerization, and Agile/Scrum methodologies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong sense of technical empathy for your end-users (whether they are real estate agents or fellow developers)

Nice To Haves

Experience with backend programming experience using languages such as Java, Golang, or Python
Experience with Kafka and event-driven systems, gRPC, Thrift, and other server-to-server communication protocols

Responsibilities

Provide strategic direction and ownership of platform architecture, data ingestion and normalization, to deliver an industry leading search experience at scale.
Independently define and lead the delivery of complex technical projects across the entire stack.
Champion a culture of operational excellence by defining reliability KPIs, establishing accountability for service health, and leading architectural improvements that proactively reduce technical debt, manual toil, and infrastructure costs.
Adopt and operationalize modern and emerging software patterns, including integrating AI, data pipelines, and telemetry systems to automate workflows.
Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of AI assisted workflows, decoupled systems, and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies.
Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers.

Benefits

Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions).
paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave
medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits
401(k) plan
flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
commuter program
life and disability insurance
Maven (a support system for new parents)
Carrot (fertility benefits)
UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
Employee Assistance Program
pet insurance