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Software Engineer II

Compass

Compass

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Jul 12, 2024

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.

The Engineering Platform team is a mission-critical team within Compass’ Technology Infrastructure organization and is responsible for building tools and software that the rest of Compass depends on. Our mission is to build the tools that enable Compass Engineering to move fast for our customers and make it easy for engineers to develop, deploy, and monitor their software. Engineering Platform provides Compass engineers with best-in-class developer tooling, enabling them to merge, build, and deploy.

We are seeking a motivated backend software engineer (generalist) who wants to be a part of a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

At Compass, you will:

  • Collaborate with engineers on your team to develop and extend best-in-class internal tooling, including our internal deployment platform, our command line interface, and a variety of other tools
  • Work across the entire software development lifecycle – from local development to builds to deployment – enabling Compass engineers to move fast
  • Identify opportunities to automate to improve developer velocity
  • Participate in code reviews, document reviews, and other collaborative processes within your team
  • Write and extend technical documentation (e.g. runbooks) for services your team owns
  • Join a high-performing team with org-wide visibility and challenging projects on the horizon to help grow your career

What we’re looking for:

  • BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  • 3+ years experience with one of our backend languages (python, go, java)
  • Bash or Python scripting experience is strongly preferred
  • Experience working on CI/CD systems is a plus
  • Experience working with Bazel a plus
  • Experience working on developer tooling is a plus
  • Exposure to microservice architectures is a plus
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

We use:

  • CircleCI
  • Github
  • Bazel
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Datadog

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $94,000-$142,000 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 that You Need to Know About:

Participation in our incentive programs (which may include where eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, marriage 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.

Do your best work, be your authentic self.
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, 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. 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.

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