Senior Growth Tools Engineering Lead

Compass; New York (NY); On-site; USD 167,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses & RSUs

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Compass is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager for the Business Growth team in the United States. You will lead a talented group focused on building tools that help real estate agents grow their business, including marketing and lead generation solutions and SEO-driven strategies.

Your role spans setting direction, coordinating with Product, Designers, and Staff Engineers, and delivering high-impact roadmap features that scale the platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development and at least 7+ years of which are management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• A highly technical, hands-on developer and an effective people manager with experience directly leading teams and other managers.
• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining web applications, distributed backend systems or data platforms.
• Experience with technologies such as Python, Typescript, Java, Golang, AWS, Kafka, React.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team.
• Proven track record of using agile principles with multiple teams and products to meet project goals and deliver high quality products.
• Excellent communication skills, utilized to collaborate both within Engineering and across all functions of the company to drive engineering initiatives.
• Excellent mentoring and review skills to help engineers make technical and career progress.
• Exceptional focus on customers by building products that are stable and reliable.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow an organization of talented managers and engineers.
• Participate in setting the organization’s goals, develop its roadmap with the organization, and often represent Transaction Platform interacting with senior leaders across the company.
• Ensure that your team's software adheres to transaction and user data privacy compliance regulations.
• Provide guidance and support in career development, skill enhancement, and performance management for team members.
• Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
• Collaborate with the technical team and product management to drive innovation, maintain code quality, and ensure adherence to software development best practices.
• Work closely with senior leadership and other stakeholders to define, execute, and report on the software development strategy in alignment with the company's overall goals.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance team efficiency and project delivery.
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to champion and evangelize a technical vision for engineering at Compass.
• Be a connector across engineering teams to drive sound technical and architecture decisions that help effectively scale our products, considering short and long-term risks.

Skills

Python

Typescript

Java

Golang

AWS

Kafka

React

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Job description

Compass is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager for the Business Growth team in the United States. You will lead a talented group focused on building tools that help real estate agents grow their business, including marketing and lead generation solutions and SEO-driven strategies.

Your role spans setting direction, coordinating with Product, Designers, and Staff Engineers, and delivering high-impact roadmap features that scale the platform.