Staff Software Engineer

About this role

• As a Staff Software Engineer in the Transaction Journey organization, you will use your experience with microservices based architecture to build products that deliver high business impact for our customers
• You will lead design and develop services to support an industry leading consumer experience while also supporting the growth of the world’s most scalable brokerage
• You will lead a team to build a collaborative transaction management platform that streamlines the process of buying/selling homes through enabling agents to manage transaction processes from initial contact to close, including accessing state and local forms, sending documents for electronic signature, and managing offers for buyers and sellers
• Provide strategic direction and ownership to Compass software architecture
• Build, develop, and scale the platform that empowers real estate professionals, buyers, and sellers
• Become a domain expert in real estate technology, serving as an empathetic partner to our customers
• Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers
• Lead in the architecting of our distributed microservices architecture
• Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies
• Execute on standard agile development methodology
• Join a great team with a lot of visibility and some challenging projects on the horizon- You love to learn, and equally love to share your knowledge with others
• You are an engineer who is passionate about creating well-defined APIs that are easy to use
• You feel it is critical that your voice is heard in product and business decisions
• You are a great communicator and you take care to understand before making yourself understood
• Your code is designed for modularity and re-use
• Your design systems are fault tolerant, scalable, highly available, well-tested, eventually consistent, and follow best practices such as the single responsibility princi...