Senior Software Engineer
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.
About the Role
The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) team is responsible for building the tools that help Compass agents manage client relationships, organize contacts, and drive business outcomes. From automated marketing to lead tracking, contact insights, and communications (calling, texting, and email), we power the core workflows that agents rely on daily.
As a backend engineer on the CRM team, you’ll help us improve and scale our systems to support tens of thousands of agents managing millions of contacts and interactions.
In This Role, You Will
- Build and maintain backend services that power CRM workflows such as contact management, search, notifications, and job processing.
- Design and implement scalable APIs and data pipelines using modern architecture patterns.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver high-quality features that enhance agent experience and system performance.
- Participate in code reviews, write tests, and contribute to documentation and operational excellence initiatives.
- Learn from and contribute to a team of experienced engineers while growing your skills in system design and distributed systems.
- Leverage Gen AI tools to automate workflows and improve agent productivity.
- Operate in a scalable engineering culture driven by decoupled systems and automated CI/CD, testing, and monitoring practices.
What We Look For
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- Proficiency in Golang, with experience building scalable backend services and APIs
- Experience working with distributed systems and microservices, especially at scale—including shipping products used by thousands of users
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., Postgres, DynamoDB)
- Understanding of industry-standard development practices: version control, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring
- Strong communication and collaboration skills—comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams
- A problem-solving mindset with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and scalability
- Experience with event-driven architecture, message queues (e.g., SQS, Kafka), or prior CRM or real estate platforms
Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $111,000-$167,000; 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 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.
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