At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.
About the Role:
As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Identity organization, you will lead a team whose focus is the creation and extensibility of features on the Collaboration system. Collaboration is key to how the Compass supports the agent and buyer experience; it is a key differentiator for why the platform is successful. The collaboration system for Compass is unique across the industry and requires a leader who is customer-focused but also an operator; someone who knows how to work across organizations to build the right solutions while also being able to operate software that is reliable and available 24/7.
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This role includes building relationships across Compass to build a strategic roadmap and plan, work with engineering teams to deliver on commitments and develop/grow engineers for the next generation of services.
Collaboration is core to the Compass platform and is a market differentiator; its importance is critical to the success of our agents. If this is the type of challenge you are looking for then let us know!
Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and grow an organization of talented managers and engineers.
- Participate in setting the organization’s goals, develop its roadmap with the organization, and represent Collaboration and Identity by interacting with senior leaders across the company.
- Provide guidance and support in career development, skill enhancement, and performance management for team members.
- Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
- Collaborate with the technical team and product management to drive innovation, maintain code quality, and ensure adherence to software development best practices.
- Work closely with senior leadership and other stakeholders to define, execute, and report on the software development strategy in alignment with the company's overall goals.
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance team efficiency and project delivery.
- Collaborate with other engineering leaders to champion and evangelize a technical vision for engineering at Compass.
- Be a connector across engineering teams to drive sound technical and architecture decisions that help effectively scale our products, considering short and long-term risks.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in software development and at least 7+ years of which are management experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- A highly technical, hands-on developer and an effective people manager with experience directly leading teams and other managers.
- Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining web applications, distributed backend systems or data platforms.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team.
- Proven track record of using agile principles with multiple teams and products to meet project goals and deliver high-quality products.
- Excellent communication skills, utilized to collaborate both within Engineering and across all functions of the company to drive engineering initiatives.
- Excellent mentoring and review skills to help engineers make technical and career progress.
- Exceptional focus on customers by building products that are stable and reliable.
The base pay range for this position is $167,400-$251,000 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.
Perks that You Need to Know About:
Participation in our incentive programs (which may include where eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus 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; and pet insurance.