Cloud-Native Software Engineer II

Compass; New York (NY); On-site; USD 127,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive programs with cash/equity/lo

Paid vacation

Holidays

Sick time

Parental leave

Recharge leave

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

FSAs

Commuter program

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Maven—support for new parents

Carrot fertility benefits

UrbanSitter

Employee Assistance Program

Pet insurance

Job summary

Compass is hiring a Software Engineer II to join its fast-growing engineering team in New York. You will design and build distributed, event-driven microservices that power the end-to-end real estate platform, enabling agents to serve buyers and sellers with high quality experiences.

The role emphasizes ownership, code reviews, testing, and documentation, with an opportunity to work across the real estate journey and collaborate on scalable cloud services leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Qualifications

• BS in CS or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of software engineering experience with Java or Golang.
• Experience with Kafka and Ruby on Rails is a plus.
• Experience designing and building cloud-based services.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based services (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization, microservices architecture, and CI/CD.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services.
• Design and build distributed, event-driven microservices.
• Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects.
• Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests.
• Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain.
• Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks).
• Own and operationally improve services in your domain throughout their lifecycle.
• Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience.

Skills

Java

Golang

Verbal and written communication

Cloud-based services

Education

BS in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Ruby on Rails

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Job description

Compass is hiring a Software Engineer II to join its fast-growing engineering team in New York. You will design and build distributed, event-driven microservices that power the end-to-end real estate platform, enabling agents to serve buyers and sellers with high quality experiences.

The role emphasizes ownership, code reviews, testing, and documentation, with an opportunity to work across the real estate journey and collaborate on scalable cloud services leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP.