Senior Software Engineering (Front-End)

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.

As one of the fastest-growing technology companies in a massive industry, we're on a mission to build an exceptional engineering team and a transformative operating platform that will redefine real estate. At Compass, we believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive community, ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. As a Senior Software Engineer I and Senior Software Engineer II , 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 Front End Engineers.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM): CRM Insights is transforming Compass's CRM from a system of record into an intelligent system of action — using AI-driven insights to surface data patterns and proactively guide agents toward high-value activity. As the FE Lead, you'll shape a strategic, high-visibility product surface — building innovative dashboards, notifications, and reporting interfaces that make those insights actionable for thousands of agents.

Powers the scalability of brokerage operations by engineering a unified operating system that consolidates fragmented back-office workflows—including several back-office applications, APIs, tools and services—into a cohesive, data-driven ecosystem that eliminates manual dependencies and empowers brokerages to grow and operate profitably.

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.

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

• 5+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications in Typescript, Javascript, and HTML/CSS
• 5+ years of experience with React and NodeJS
• 3+ years of experience using AWS / cloud technologies
• A track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact
• Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture while keeping abreast of evolving technologies in AI
• A sheer eye for design and attention to detail, the products you build should not merely be functional but should take in context and anticipate our customer’s needs in a beautiful way
• Strong familiarity with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, containerization, and Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience with backend programming experience using languages such as Java, Golang, or Python
• 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.

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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 Principles and 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.