Engineering

Director of Engineering

New York City

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 will triple the size of our engineering team and are searching for creative and inspiring colleagues at all levels of the engineering organization. 

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.

About the Role

An engineering leader at Compass is respected by colleagues for your deep technical contributions to the industry, your ability to inspire and attract key talent, your passion for customers and the impact of your work, and your ability to deliver large scale engineering solutions with quality. You will be responsible for leading engineering teams to build industry-defining services and products, leveraging modern cloud technology, data and AI technologies, setting long term technical vision, and creating a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

At Compass You Will:

• Provide technical leadership to build, develop and scale our platform that powers real estate agents, buyers and sellers
• Identify business opportunities and define technical vision for your team and the company
• Be a domain expert on real estate technology and products and an empathetic partner to our customers
• Inspire, recruit and mentor a team of high performing engineers
• Develop a scalable engineering culture for hundreds of top talent engineers by leveraging modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies

What We Look For:

• Proven track record of building top talent and high performance teams, directing multiple teams and engineering managers
• Experience managing large scale systems in rapid growth environments
• Experience with modern web frameworks (e.g. Go/React), distributed computing (e.g. Spark), public cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) and data pipelines
• Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration and delivery
• Leadership on multiple well-known products throughout their life cycles, from idea conception to product release and maintenance
• Proven success in working with product, marketing, business, and operations divisions
• Examples of engineers for whom you’ve guided their technical and career progress
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience, MS/PhD preferred

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.

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