Senior Engineering Manager
As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Search & Listings (S&L) organization at Compass, you will lead a team central to our real estate technology platform, simplifying the process of finding, buying, and selling homes. The S&L team is responsible for aggregating property and listing data from numerous sources nationwide, ensuring data quality, and building rich experiences for agents and consumers to search, track, share, and explore properties. These tools are foundational in enabling agents to work more efficiently, allowing them to focus on growing their businesses.
In this role, you will oversee critical products and services integral to agent workflows, including both agent and consumer-facing real estate search experiences. Given the central position of these services within the Compass platform and their integration with various core products, this role requires a seasoned manager who upholds the highest operational standards and excels in facilitating essential discussions with stakeholders across multiple functions and organizations. Your responsibilities will include managing a large infrastructure footprint with a focus on resilience and cost-efficiency, collaborating cross-functionally on high-priority projects, and delivering results that impact company-wide goals. You will lead a talented team of developers, fostering a culture of collaboration and trust, and working closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Staff Engineers to identify and deliver long-term solutions for our customers.
Key responsibilities include leading, mentoring, and growing a team of managers and engineers; participating in setting organizational goals and developing roadmaps; providing guidance in career development and performance management; overseeing the entire software development lifecycle to ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions; collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals; driving innovation and maintaining code quality; working closely with senior leadership to define and execute software development strategies; identifying and implementing process improvements; and championing a technical vision for engineering at Compass.
The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in software development, with at least 7 years in management roles. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required. The candidate should be a highly technical, hands-on leader with experience directly leading teams and other managers. Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining web applications, distributed backend systems, or data platforms is essential. Proficiency with technologies such as Java, AWS, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Python, TypeScript, and React is preferred. Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, a proven track record of using agile principles, excellent communication skills, and a focus on building stable and reliable products are also important.
The base pay range for this position is $167,000 to $252,200 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met. Perks include participation in incentive programs, paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental, and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance; Maven (a support system for new parents); Carrot (fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.
At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world—a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, and where they can thrive. Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth, and mobility. We offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits, and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.