Compass · 1 day ago
Senior Engineering Manager
Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$167K/yr - $252K/yr
10+ years expCompass is revolutionizing the real estate industry with its end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to enhance the real estate search experience by overseeing critical products and services, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating with various stakeholders to drive innovation.
Property ManagementPropTechReal EstateReal Estate BrokerageResidential
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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, ElasticSearch, Kafka, AWS, Python, Typescript, 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
Benefits
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;
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;
Pet insurance.
Company
Compass
Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (2)
2024 (4)
2023 (5)
2022 (21)
2021 (73)
2020 (22)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.77BKey Investors
Morgan Stanley Senior FundingSoftBank Vision FundFidelity
2025-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $250M
2021-04-01IPO
2019-07-30Series G· $370M
Leadership Team
Robert Reffkin
Founder & CEO
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Mike Toltzis
Co-Founder @ SET Real Estate Group || Compass
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