Senior Software Engineer

$131,800 - $197,100/Yr

Compass, Inc. - Boston, MA

Full-time - Senior

Boston, MA

Real Estate

About the position

As a Senior Software Engineer at Compass, you will play a crucial role in revolutionizing the real estate industry by developing and scaling our end-to-end platform. This position involves leading the design and development of microservices that enhance the consumer experience and support the growth of a scalable brokerage. You will have the opportunity to mentor fellow engineers and work on high-impact projects that directly affect how customers interact with our platform.

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.
• Architect distributed microservices architecture.
• Operate in a scalable engineering culture leveraging modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring.
• Execute on standard agile development methodology.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications with languages such as Java, Go, or Python.
• 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 that are well tested, fault tolerant, and scalable.
• 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.

Benefits

• Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, marriage 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.