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 the Senior Engineering Manager focused on Developer Experience and Platforms within the Tech Infra organization, you will be responsible for the strategy and execution for delivering software that empowers engineers to deliver features more effectively and at higher quality across the Compass engineering ecosystem.Your team will build and maintain tools, frameworks, and processes that streamline the feature development lifecycle and also reduce the need for manual intervention for large scale changes. Individuals who thrive on collaboration are encouraged to apply as they will be expected to partner closely with customers to ensure they understand the most impactful areas of opportunity to solve for.

Responsibilities

Nurture and Develop Talent: Build a high-performing team through mentorship, coaching, and empowerment. Foster Growth & Performance: Provide individualized guidance to help each team member advance their technical and leadership skills. Define Organizational Roadmap: Set long-term goals for developer productivity initiatives in collaboration with senior leadership. Stay Ahead of Emerging Trends: Research and apply cutting-edge frameworks, tools, and practices to increase code quality and delivery speed. Scale with Sound Architecture: Oversee technical decisions to ensure robust, scalable tools supporting rapid feature delivery. Streamline & Innovate: Automate processes to reduce manual effort and foster a culture of responsible engineering. Champion Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with product and engineering teams to drive consensus, clearly articulating trade-offs. Communicate Impact & Results: Use data-driven metrics to show how initiatives enhance developer experience and deliver business value.

Requirements:

Strong Technical Background: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building tools, platforms, or processes that significantly improve developer velocity and code quality. Management Experience: A technical leader with 6+ years of experience directly leading geographically distributed teams and staff-level engineers.  People-Focused Leadership: Demonstrated success developing high-performing teams, ideally within a centralized infrastructure engineering organization Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills with a proactive approach to aligning priorities and balancing trade-offs. Customer Empathy & Product Mindset: Demonstrated ability to deeply understand user needs and treat the platform as a product, prioritizing excellent user experience and satisfaction. Data-Driven Decision-Making: Skilled in using metrics to guide improvements, with familiarity in modern DevOps tooling and cloud platforms. Track Record of Large-Scale Migrations: Experience successfully leading major infrastructure or platform transitions. Visionary Leader: Capable of setting a compelling technical direction that inspires teams and aligns with business objectives.

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $167,000-$252,000 annually; 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 where eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, marriage 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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