Director of Engineering

The role

This person will lead the engineering for consumer-facing web and mobile experiences across multiple brands. You will manage a multi-team organization to deliver distinct brand experiences on shared platforms.

What you will do

• Own the consumer experience technical strategy
• Design pages to turn visits into direct connections with agents
• Shape a platform strategy for nine brands in 120 countries and territories
• Set org-wide standards for quality, reliability, and performance
• Manage organization spend across cloud, vendors, contractors, tech debt, and KTLO
• Define how the organization evaluates emerging technology including AI
• Hire and develop managers and senior engineers
• Align leaders across Product, Design, Marketing, brands, and peer engineering teams

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering leadership
• 6+ years leading managers
• Track record of building distributed organizations
• 12+ years in software engineering
• Deep expertise in modern web and mobile architecture for consumer products used by millions
• Experience with TypeScript and React on the front end
• Experience with Node.js, Java, Go, and Python services
• Experience with headless content management
• Experience with cloud-native, containerized infrastructure on AWS
• Proven record of moving consumer growth metrics through technical SEO at scale
• Experience building shared platforms and design systems for multiple brands or markets
• Experience shipping AI-powered consumer experiences

Nice to have

• Experience in real estate, marketplaces, or multi-brand consumer businesses

Benefits

• Incentive programs including cash, equity, or commissions
• Paid vacation
• Holidays
• Sick time
• Parental leave
• 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)

About the company

Compass is a real estate company founded in 2012 that uses an end-to-end platform to empower residential real estate agents. Compass International Holdings (CIH) includes brands such as @properties, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Century 21, Christie's International Real Estate, Coldwell Banker, Compass, Corcoran, ERA Real Estate and Sotheby's International Realty.