Job Summary:
Compass is revolutionizing the real estate industry with an end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Staff AI Enablement Team, you will drive Compass's enterprise AI strategy by designing and deploying automated workflows that bridge AI capabilities with business needs.
Responsibilities:
• Build Direct Business Integrations: Partner with departmental Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to translate manual, high-volume operational tasks (e.g., transaction management, legal review, financial reconciliation) into robust, automated AI pipelines.
• Orchestrate Agentic Workflows: Implement advanced application-level AI patterns, including multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, semantic document routers, and state-machine-driven automation.
• Utilize and Inform Platform Primitives: Build your integrations on top of our Tier 1 AI Platform APIs, providing continuous feedback loops to the Platform Team to help shape company-wide infrastructure and gateway design.
• Enforce Rigorous Security Compliance: Ensure all departmental integrations adhere to absolute data security and privacy standards, keeping sensitive company and customer PII strictly protected.
• Maintain Code Quality & Governance: Review code submissions, establish robust testing frameworks for LLM outputs, and ensure that our rapid execution model does not accumulate technical debt.
• Unblock and Mentor Engineers: Provide technical guidance to engineers within your dedicated pod, fostering a high-performing and inclusive engineering culture.
• Focus on Continuous Improvement: Design, monitor, and improve operational metrics and logging for your integrations to quickly troubleshoot, resolve defects, and optimize user experience.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong Application & Backend Engineering Background: 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating production-grade web applications, API integrations, or business-critical backend services.
• Hands-on GenAI Experience: 1+ years of experience building applications utilizing LLMs, including familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG, vector databases, and popular orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, AutoGen).
• High Customer Empathy & Collaboration: Proven experience working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, non-technical partners, or product managers to scope, design, and launch user-centric software solutions.
• Data Privacy & Security Mindset: A strong understanding of secure coding practices, API authentication (OAuth), and protocols for handling highly sensitive or regulated business data (PII, financial records).
• Distributed Systems & Integration Expertise: Solid experience with RESTful/GraphQL APIs, message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), asynchronous job processing, and integrating third-party SaaS platforms.
• Cloud & DevOps Proficiency: Comfortable deploying and monitoring applications in AWS or similar cloud environments, utilizing Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and modern infrastructure observability tools.
• Pragmatic Problem Solver: Ability to make smart technical trade-offs, prioritizing immediate business value and operational stability over speculative, over-engineered architectures.
Company:
Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.