Senior Software Engineer II

There is so much more Compass can do, and it needs your experience building modern cloud services to evolve and create products that improve every step of the real estate agents’ experience from the first contact with a client to the close of a deal. You will have the opportunity to work across the entire real estate journey, working with technology that aggregates millions to billions of interactions, listings, transactions, and other data. 

On the Compass Innovation Lab team, we are building cutting edge AI driven products aimed at integrating Artificial Intelligence into everyday real estate workflows on the Compass platform.  As we continue to build and improve this platform, we will work closely with our agents to understand how we can shape our tools to provide the most value to their business.

Working in the Compass Innovation Lab team will give you the opportunity to develop products leveraging exciting new AI technologies, and the platform that powers those products. Your work will make an immediate transformational impact on our agents' day to day lives. You will be a full stack engineer tasked with architecting, developing, and maintaining services aimed at exposing machine learning models and third party generative AI integrations. You will lead at the forefront of AI-driven innovation in the real estate technology domain. 

What you will do:  

• Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
• Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
• Guide the team to make technical trade offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
• Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects, may lead other engineers
• Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests
• Have a strong stance and advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
• Hold yourself and the team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
• Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
• Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
• Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience 
• Oversee and mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence

What we look for: 

• BS in CS or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience both on the client and server. 
• Prior experience working with generative AI and Machine Learning
• Prior experience with relational databases and SQL
• Experience leading the development of a project from planning to release, dispatching work among a team, mentoring and guiding junior engineers
• Experience building tools that leverage third party API integrations
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $131,800-$197,100 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.