Senior Software Engineer - Service Framework

Seattle, WA

Job Description:

Compass is building the first modern end-to-end real estate platform by integrating agents, buyers, and sellers through technology. Before Compass, no one has achieved the blend of the Natural Intelligence that hundreds of thousands of enterprising real estate agents bring to this market, with the Artificial Intelligence that cloud, mobile, and AI technologies enable.

As one of the fastest-growing technology companies of our generation, in an industry larger than any other, we have an opportunity and obligation to build a world-class engineering team and the operating platform that will transform the real estate industry. In 2019 we tripled the size of our Product & Engineering team, and are searching for creative and inspiring colleagues at all levels of the engineering organization to join us as we continue to expand in 2020.

At Compass, our mission is to “help everyone find their place in the world.” We celebrate the diverse communities we are a part of, and strive to reflect that diversity in our hiring. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. Our entrepreneurship principles bind us together and inform how we tackle the tremendous challenges ahead.

About the role:

The Service Framework 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.

We are looking for experienced engineers who want to be a part of a fast-paced startup and build a next-generation technology platform for the real estate industry.

Service Framework:

• Improves the way teams create services and provide them with rich tools to keep their applications and services secure
• Is responsible for many parts of Compass’ tier-1 infrastructure, requiring high-availability and resiliency from failure
• Provides Compass Engineers with best-in-class tools to monitor their applications’ performance and availability
• Creates automated code generation that enables service owners and consumers to quickly and easily interoperate with backend services
• Creates automation that enforces best practices across all of Compass Engineering, freeing other team members from concern and worry

What We’re Looking For:

• 2 - 4+ years using AWS / cloud technologies
• 3 - 5+ years using one of our backend programming languages (python, go, java)
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes is a plus
• Exposure to microservice architectures is a plus
• BS in CS

Our Tools:

• AWS
• Docker / Kubernetes / EKS
• Node, go, python, and java
• HTTP2, gRPC, and thrift

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place.

Check out our engineering blog:  https://medium.com/compass-true-north