Principal Engineering Management Job

At Compass, our mission is 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.

Our Compass Integrated Services team powers Next , a brokerage productivity platform that streamlines operational workflows by providing staff with a clear, prioritized view of what needs to happen next. Next improves efficiency while enabling staff to deliver more consistent, high‑value support to real estate professionals.

Functionally, Next acts as an operational layer connecting people, tasks, and transaction data, enabling brokerages to manage processes more efficiently at scale. As an Engineering Manager overseeing Next, you will lead a team of talented software engineers responsible for building the core operational layers, structured task management features, and workflow automation of the Next platform. You will balance technical leadership with people management, ensuring that your team executes efficiently, scales effectively, and maintains a high bar for engineering excellence.

You will work closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to reduce manual coordination for real estate professionals and ensure that critical steps in the transaction process are completed accurately and on time.

Build and Lead the Team: Recruit, mentor, and grow a high‑performing team of software engineers (mid‑level to senior/staff). Drive Execution and Delivery: Partner closely with Product Managers and Designers to define the roadmap for the Next platform. Own the agile delivery process, ensuring predictable, high‑quality releases of workflow automation and transaction management features.

Navigate complex dependencies across different business units, aligning your team’s technical strategy with overall company objectives.

Establish best practices for code quality, testing, deployment, and on‑call rotations to ensure high availability of the Next platform.

7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years of experience directly managing and leading high‑performing engineering teams.

A strong technical background in building scalable web applications and distributed systems. Experience with modern full‑stack technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Go.

Proven track record of using agile principles with multiple teams and products to meet project goals and deliver high‑quality products.

Excellent communication skills, utilized to collaborate both within Engineering and across all functions of the company to drive engineering initiatives.

Excellent mentoring and review skills to help engineers make technical and career progress.

Exceptional focus on customers by building products that are stable and reliable.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Participation in incentive programs, which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions.

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.

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.