Senior Android Engineer

Compass; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) plan

Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

Life and disability insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Compass is seeking an experienced Android engineer in Seattle to build a platform enhancing home buying and selling experiences. You will lead projects, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with Product and Design to improve product offerings.

The role requires a strong background in Kotlin and Android development, with a passion for enhancing user experience and mentoring others. The compensation ranges from $131,000 to $197,000, with additional benefits and bonuses available.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of professional Android development experience shipping apps to the Play Store.
• 3+ years of experience with modern Kotlin development practices.
• Ability to collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of complex projects, mentoring junior engineers.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams.
• Create clear documentation and identify inefficiencies.

Skills

Kotlin

Android development

Agile methodologies

Team leadership

RESTful services

AI tools

Education

BS in Computer Science

Job description

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.

We are looking for an experienced Android engineer to help Compass build a platform that makes the home buying or selling experience delightful. You will be one of the technical leaders in your immediate team, working with other engineers, Product and Design counterparts to take projects from idea to done with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.

During a project’s execution, you will act as a leader ensuring any technical questions and trade-offs are considered pragmatically, with a well-reasoned and understood solution being executed upon. You will guide more junior engineers with technical problems, ensuring that they follow best practices from an engineering and operational excellence perspective. Your influence will extend beyond shipping, as Product and Design will rely on your engineering perspective to iteratively improve the product for customers.

Outside of product-driven projects, you will collaborate with other engineers to determine how to push our platform forward, devise engineering-led initiatives that enable rapid delivery while maintaining high operational excellence, and mentor junior engineers for technical and career growth.

What you will do

• Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
• Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, and Product and Design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
• Act as a strategic partner to Product and Design, using technical insights to influence the product roadmap and proactively suggesting architectural changes that enable new categories of user experiences
• Guide the team to make technical trade-offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving at a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
• Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects, may lead other engineers
• Modularization and Architecture: architect and lead the transition toward a highly modularized codebase to improve build speeds and team fungibility, ensuring our architecture scales with our growing engineering organization
• Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests
• Have a strong stance and advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
• Hold yourself and the team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
• Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
• Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
• Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
• Oversee and mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence

What we look for

• BS in CS or equivalent practical experience
• 9+ years of professional Android development experience using Kotlin and shipping apps to the Play Store
• 3+ years of experience with modern Kotlin development practices, such as Jetpack Compose and Flow. Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform is a plus but not mandatory
• Ability to collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders to implement solutions which surprise and delight our customers
• Master Computer Science fundamentals and Android design patterns and best practices
• A sheer eye for design and attention to detail, the products you build should not merely be functional but should anticipate our customer’s needs in a beautiful way
• Experience leading the development of a project from planning to release, dispatching work among a team, mentoring and guiding junior engineers
• Experience with AI tools
• Experience integrating with RESTful server-side services
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Passion about mentoring and helping more junior engineers to grow

Compensation

The base pay range for this position is $131,000-$197,000; 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

• 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. At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world — a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive. Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.

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