Senior Engineering Manager

Join us at Compass as a Senior Engineering Manager to help shape the future of real‑estate technology.

As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Search & Listings (S&L) organization, you will lead a team that sits at the heart of our real‑estate platform. You will manage the ingestion, cleansing, and distribution of property and listing data from hundreds of nationwide sources, and build rich experiences for agents and consumers to search, track, share, and explore listings. Your role will oversee critical products that are foundational to our agent workflows, collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Design, and Staff Engineering, and drive outcomes that move the Compass platform forward.

• Lead, mentor, and grow an organization of talented managers and engineers.
• Participate in setting the organization’s goals, develop its roadmap with the organization, and represent core Search teams interacting with senior leaders across the company.
• Provide guidance and support in career development, skill enhancement, and performance management for team members.
• Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
• Collaborate with the technical team and product management to drive innovation, maintain code quality, and ensure adherence to software development best practices.
• Work closely with senior leadership and other stakeholders to define, execute, and report on the software development strategy in alignment with the company's overall goals.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance team efficiency and project delivery.
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to champion and evangelize a technical vision for engineering at Compass.
• Be a connector across engineering teams to drive sound technical and architecture decisions that help effectively scale our products, considering short and long‑term risks.

• 10+ years of experience in software development and at least 7+ years of which are management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• A highly technical, hands‑on technical leader and an effective people manager with experience directly leading teams and other managers.
• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining web applications, distributed backend systems or data platforms.
• Experience with technologies such as Java, AWS, Elastic Search, Kafka, Python, Type Script, and React.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team.
• 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.

The base pay range for this position is $167,000-$252,200 annually, with bonuses and restricted stock units potentially offered as part of the compensation package. Base pay is based on market location and minimum wage for the position will always be met.

• Participation in incentive programs (eligible cash, equity, or commissions).
• Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave.
• Medical, tele‑health, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) plan and flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
• Commuter program; life and disability insurance.
• Maven support for new parents;
  Carrot fertility benefits.
• Urban Sitter caregiver referral network;
  Employee Assistance Program; pet insurance.

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. We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility.

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