Senior Software Engineering - Machine Learning

At Compass, our mission 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.

As a Senior Software Engineer I , you will join a world-class engineering team operating the only end-to-end platform in the real estate industry. We are building a high-caliber talent pool of Senior Engineers to lead technical initiatives across several key domain areas. For these roles, we are looking for Fullstack Engineers with a strong interest or specialization in Backend development and Frontend development

Compass Integrated Services (CIS): At the core of driving our next phase of growth and platform evolution, building the technology and operations that power our strategic partner services; including Title & Escrow, Home Warranty, Mortgage, and Insurance. Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Center yourself at the heart of our platform, designing and building the high-scale, event-driven services and seamless user interfaces that allow 300,000+ real estate agents to manage and engage with millions of clients.

Architecting the core search stack that powers the Compass platform. This domain spans from MLS and data ingestion to highly responsive consumer and agent facing search experiences like map based discovery and intelligent listing matching.

Architecting the search platform powering Compass. You will be developing distributed data pipelines for ingesting and normalizing hundreds of real-time MLS feeds (Apache Kafka/MSK,Spark/Databricks) and developing advanced search capabilities to drive the Compass search experience to new levels.

Architect, build, and maintain high-performance, distributed, event-driven microservices and cloud infrastructure, while ensuring seamless integration with modern, intuitive frontend interfaces.

Independently define, decompose, and lead the delivery of complex technical projects and subsystems across the entire stack.

Build and operationalize modern software patterns, including integrating AI models, data pipelines, and telemetry systems to automate workflows.

Champion Engineering Excellence: Perform rigorous code and design reviews, write high-quality automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end), and continuously leave codebases cleaner and more performant than you found them.

Own Your Domain: Act as a subject matter expert, creating clear technical documentation (architecture diagrams, runbooks, and specs) and owning your services and applications throughout their entire lifecycle.

Education: BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience: 5+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of delivering complex technical projects autonomously. (Fullstack Capabilities with a Backend Bias:

Strong engineering fundamentals across the full stack, with a clear preference and passion for backend architecture, data systems, and API design .

Strong proficiency in backend languages such as Go or Java .

Professional experience with Python (highly valued for data/telemetry pipelines and AI/LLM workflows).

Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React) to successfully build and connect end-to-end user experiences.

Experience with Kafka or Ruby on Rails is a major plus.

Solid hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-based microservices architectures on major cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred, GCP, or Azure).

Strong familiarity with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, containerization, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Experience building high-throughput user workflow tools, transactional systems, dynamic user interfaces, or SaaS products.

Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.

Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); life and disability insurance; UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principlesand our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.