Job Summary:
Compass is revolutionizing the real estate industry with its end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents. The Senior Software Engineer II will lead the design and technical architecture of integrated services, ensuring scalable solutions and driving cross-domain technical strategy to enhance the overall transaction journey for agents and clients.
Responsibilities:
• Architect the Integrated Services Ecosystem: Lead the system design and technical architecture for the rollout of One-Click Title & Escrow, Insurance, Mortgage, and Home Warranty MVPs, ensuring solutions are scalable across existing and newly acquired markets.
• Drive Cross-Domain Technical Strategy: Navigate complex data architecture challenges, such as defining data ingestion, mapping, and deduplication strategies between the Home Platform, Salesforce, and legacy data stores
• Own End-to-End Delivery: Own features end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Partner in Product Discovery: Collaborate closely with product managers and business stakeholders during the discovery phase of new initiatives. Translate complex requirements into clear technical blueprints and executable roadmaps.
• Ensure System Reliability & Security: Act as the ultimate owner of the technical quality for the team's domain. Anticipate bottlenecks, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and ensure all partner integrations adhere to strict security and compliance standards
• Act as a Technical Multiplier: Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and establish engineering best practices. You will align your squad on technical direction while effectively resolving ambiguity in legacy migrations.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 7+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications with languages such as Go or Typescript
• 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
• Experience working across both modern and legacy frontend technologies — including frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Strong analytical and systems-level debugging skills with the ability to reason through complex, interconnected systems
• Comfort working across modern CI/CD tooling and collaborative Git-based workflows
• Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools in real delivery environments, including familiarity with tools like ClaudeCode and concepts such as CLAUDE.md project configuration and custom skills
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
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.