Senior Software Engineer I

Compass; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 149,580 - 166,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

401(k) plan

Medical benefits

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Compass is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Staff AI Enablement Team. You will play a crucial role in advancing Compass's AI strategy by creating automated workflows that effectively bridge AI capabilities with business needs.

Ideal candidates should have over 6 years of software engineering experience, hands-on GenAI experience, a strong focus on security compliance, and the ability to mentor other engineers. The position offers competitive pay starting from $149,580 to $166,200 along with various benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with a track record in web applications.
• 1+ years of GenAI application-building experience with LLMs.
• Experience with secure coding practices and API authentication.
• Expertise in integrating with third-party SaaS platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build partnerships to create automated AI workflows.
• Implement advanced AI patterns and maintain code quality.
• Provide mentoring to junior engineers.
• Monitor and enhance operational metrics for user experience.

Skills

Application & Backend Engineering

GenAI Experience

Customer Empathy

Data Privacy & Security

Distributed Systems Expertise

Cloud & DevOps Proficiency

Problem Solving

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Staff AI Enablement Team, you will be a key driver of Compass's enterprise AI strategy as part of a forward‑deployed strike force that partners directly with major business units (such as Finance, Legal, HR, and Brokerage Operations) to produce game‑changing, automated workflows.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between complex AI capabilities and real‑world business problems. You will design, build, and deploy the direct integrations, custom agents, and automated pipelines that allow our departments to transition from simple chat interfaces to deep, programmatic workflow automations. You will act as a critical technical anchor ensuring code quality, mentoring engineers, enforcing security compliance, and maintaining a high delivery velocity.

Responsibilities

• Build Direct Business Integrations: Partner with departmental Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to translate manual, high‑volume operational tasks (e.g., transaction management, legal review, financial reconciliation) into robust, automated AI pipelines.
• Orchestrate Agentic Workflows: Implement advanced application‑level AI patterns, including multi‑agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, semantic document routers, and state‑machine‑driven automation.
• Utilize and Inform Platform Primitives: Build your integrations on top of our Tier 1 AI Platform APIs, providing continuous feedback loops to the Platform Team to help shape company‑wide infrastructure and gateway design.
• Enforce Rigorous Security Compliance: Ensure all departmental integrations adhere to absolute data security and privacy standards, keeping sensitive company and customer PII strictly protected.
• Maintain Code Quality & Governance: Review code submissions, establish robust testing frameworks for LLM outputs, and ensure that our rapid execution model does not accumulate technical debt.
• Unblock and Mentor Engineers: Provide technical guidance to engineers within your dedicated pod, fostering a high‑performing and inclusive engineering culture.
• Focus on Continuous Improvement: Design, monitor, and improve operational metrics and logging for your integrations to quickly troubleshoot, resolve defects, and optimize user experience.

Requirements

• Strong Application & Backend Engineering Background: 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating production‑grade web applications, API integrations, or business‑critical backend services.
• Hands‑on GenAI Experience: 1+ years of experience building applications utilizing LLMs, including familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG, vector databases, and popular orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, AutoGen).
• High Customer Empathy & Collaboration: Proven experience working closely with cross‑functional stakeholders, non‑technical partners, or product managers to scope, design, and launch user‑centric software solutions.
• Data Privacy & Security Mindset: A strong understanding of secure coding practices, API authentication (OAuth), and protocols for handling highly sensitive or regulated business data (PII, financial records).
• Distributed Systems & Integration Expertise: Solid experience with RESTful/GraphQL APIs, message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), asynchronous job processing, and integrating third‑party SaaS platforms.
• Cloud & DevOps Proficiency: Comfortable deploying and monitoring applications in AWS or similar cloud environments, utilizing Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and modern infrastructure observability tools.
• Pragmatic Problem Solver: Ability to make smart technical trade‑offs, prioritizing immediate business value and operational stability over speculative, over‑engineered architectures.

Compensation

The base pay range for this position is $149,580–$166,200; 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.

Benefits

• Participation in incentive programs (eligible cash, equity, or commissions).
• 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 (support system for new parents).
• Carrot (fertility benefits).
• UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network).
• Employee Assistance Program.
• 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.