Senior Backend Engineer - Building Apps

Compass is building the first modern end-to-end real estate platform by integrating agents, buyers, and sellers through technology. Until Compass, no one has achieved the blend of the Natural Intelligence that hundreds of thousands of enterprising real estate agents bring to this market, with the “Artificial Intelligence” that cloud, mobile, and AI technologies enable. We are building AI to empower AI - Artificial Intelligence to empower Agent Intelligence.

As one of the fastest-growing technology companies of our generation, in an industry larger than any other, we have an opportunity and obligation to build a world-class engineering team and the operating platform that will transform real estate. In 2019 we tripled the size of our Product & Engineering team, and are searching for creative and inspiring colleagues at all levels of the engineering organization to join us as we continue to expand in 2020.

About the Team: 

The Building Apps team is responsible for a critical piece in the suite of Compass real estate tools. With the ownership of the building page, backend services, and data pipeline, the team is responsible for all building data displayed or consumed across the entire Compass platform. With such high impact and visibility, the team excels at collaboration, agility, and scale. In 2020 we’re focusing our efforts on creating a more robust streaming data pipeline to better serve our clients, as well as introducing exciting new product features that will render the Compass platform invaluable to our customers.

About the Role: 

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Compass Building Apps Team, you will use your experience with modern cloud and data frameworks to build products that improve every step of the real estate agent, buyer, and seller experience at Compass. Leveraging the data-rich features of the real estate industry, you will build technology that aggregates billions of real estate listings and other data points, develop an industry-leading consumer experience for searching and selecting real estate, support the day to day productivity of a real estate agent with web and mobile applications while also supporting the growth of the world’s most scalable brokerage. 

What We Look For:

• BS in CS or EE or equivalent 
• Track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact
• 6+ years of experience writing complete, well-tested, database-driven web applications
• 6+ years of experience programming in languages like Java, Python, and Go (we use all three here at Compass)
• Experience designing larger systems: particularly web services and RESTful APIs, microservice architectures, and data ingestion.
• In-depth understanding and hands-on experience with relational databases and SQL (e.g., Postgres)
• Experience with real-time data streaming on Kafka or Kinesis
• Familiarity with API design patterns (oAuth, tokens, JSON)
• Familiarity with data encoding libraries, such as Avro, Protobuf, or Thrift
• Strong business communication skills
• High attention to detail and quality
• Experience with a major cloud provider, for instance, AWS

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place. Our entrepreneurship principles bind us together and inform how we tackle the tremendous challenges ahead.