Director of Engineering

About Compass Compass is a real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow. We deliver an incomparable experience to both agents and their clients all in service of the Compass mission: to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012 by Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin, Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara & Montecito, San Diego, Seattle & Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin & Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. Learn more and find your place at www.compass.com and www.compass.com/careers. Compass only reaches out to applicants from a @compass.com domain and does not prompt applicants to download software or files as part of its application process.

Compass

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compass.com/careers

1,001-5,000 employees

Real Estate

New York, NY

Public Company

390k LinkedIn followers

Raised $2.6B

• Own the consumer experience technical strategy: Set the multi-year engineering vision for our brands' websites and apps with Product, Design, and brand leaders, and own the investment case with executive leadership.
• Win the first click: Make our brands the first place buyers and sellers go when their home search begins, design every page around what they came to do, and turn every visit into a direct connection with one of our agents. Let data and experimentation show what works.
• Scale across brands and borders: Shape a platform strategy that lets nine distinct brands express their own identity and serve consumers in 120 countries and territories, without rebuilding the basics for each one.
• Set the bar for excellence: Set org-wide standards for quality, reliability, and performance, hold your managers accountable to them, and own how the org responds when things break.
• Invest wisely: Own the org's spend across cloud, vendors, contractors, tech debt, and KTLO, make clear calls about what not to do, and hold delivery partners to the same standards as our own teams.
• Bet on what's next: Define how the org evaluates emerging technology and sponsor the bets worth making, including AI, both in the experiences we build for consumers and in how our engineers work. AI is already part of how CIH works, from AI Assistant in our Home Platform to the consumer experiences we're building. You'll accelerate how AI shapes the consumer journey, helping buyers and sellers understand homes faster and decide with confidence.
• Build the organization: Hire and develop strong managers and senior engineers, shape how teams are structured, and plan succession so the org thrives without you, while building a culture of ownership, trust, and continuous improvement.
• Lead through influence: Align leaders across Product, Design, Marketing, brands, and peer engineering teams, especially where priorities compete.

• Leader of leaders: 10+ years of engineering leadership, including 6+ years leading managers, and a track record of building distributed organizations that deliver without you in the room.
• Deep consumer engineering roots: 12+ years in software engineering, with deep expertise in modern web and mobile architecture for consumer products used by millions.
• Our technology landscape: TypeScript and React on the front end, Node.js, Java, Go, and Python services, headless content management, and cloud-native, containerized infrastructure on AWS. You'll also guide the move of our brand websites onto shared, modern foundations.
• Growth at scale: A proven record of moving consumer growth metrics, such as organic traffic, conversion, and engagement, through technical SEO at scale (programmatic pages, sub-second page performance, and Core Web Vitals), visibility in AI-powered search, and high-velocity experimentation.
• Multi-brand, multi-market platforms: Experience building shared platforms and design systems that power multiple brands or markets, including international launches.
• Excellence you can measure: High standards for reliability, web performance, and accessibility, and the operational rigor to hold an org to them.
• AI fluency: You've shipped AI-powered consumer experiences, such as personalization, generative content, or computer vision, and used AI to make engineering teams faster.
• Business and executive acumen: You translate technical strategy into business outcomes for executives, and you manage budgets, vendors, and delivery partners with discipline.
• People-first leadership: You hire and grow great leaders, make the hard calls on talent with fairness and emotional intelligence, and genuinely love developing people.
• Nice to have: Experience in real estate, marketplaces, or multi-brand consumer businesses.
• Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $275,310-$305,900; 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.

• 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; and pet insurance.
• Do your best work, be your authentic self.
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