VP of Engineering

New York, NY

At Compass, we envision a world where the experience of selling or buying a home is simple and pleasant for everyone. Founded in 2012, Compass provides an end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to their seller and buyer clients, all in service of our mission to help everyone find their place in the world.

The Organization:

The Data and Search teams build an end-to-end real estate data platform that powers all of the Compass products on our web and mobile platforms. These teams are critical to the ingestion, conversion, and data endpoint services of all our internal and external data sources that drive our customer experiences for search and data pages. Our teams help deliver data and search interfaces in a timely, accurate manner to power our internal and external websites for consumers and agents.

About The Role:

As a Vice President of Engineering at Compass, you will be responsible for setting the direction and driving major strategic and engineering initiatives while supporting our company’s goals. You will work to deliver world-class engineering outcomes for our customers while managing multiple teams to ensure success of technical execution across the highest impact projects on our data and search roadmaps in partnership with our product and design teams. You will identify strategic initiatives and opportunities for improvement, while working on projects that impact the highest priorities of our technology roadmap and the business, all while collaborating cross-functionally with multiple teams. Engineering Vice Presidents influence groups outside of their organization and deliver results that move the needle at the organizational level and impact company-wide goals. This task will require you to collaborate with multiple engineering, product, and design teams within Compass.

You will be a leader that influences everything from recruiting to operational excellence in your organizations. You understand platforms and have built them before. You know how to scale up and create a world-class engineering culture.

At Compass You Will:

Responsible for driving the strategy and execution of our data and search roadmaps, with operational excellence as one of highest priorities and measures of success
Own and execute against organizational business and product OCRs and metrics
Drive your teams to be data driven with data and search quality as one of the pillars of success
Be a member of the senior management team to help drive organizational impact, product development, and operational excellence
Collaborate with technical leaders and stakeholders to the Data and Search organizations to understand, develop, and implement innovative data and search experiences and capabilities to transform our operational processes
Identify business opportunities and define technical vision for your teams and the company
Be a domain expert on search and data solutions, architectures, and an empathetic partner to our customers
Inspire, recruit, and mentor a team of high performing engineers and senior leaders
Hire, recruit, and retain a world-class team balancing FTEs and contingent staff
Lead cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize critical business areas where data, search, and related solutions can drive significant business benefits.
Develop a scalable engineering culture for hundreds of top talent engineers by leveraging modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies.

What We Look For

Proven track record of growing and managing multiple medium to large size teams (both in-person and remote) in multiple geographies and timezones
Experience managing large scale data and/or search systems in rapid growth environments with proven scalability
Demonstrated building top talent and high-performance teams, directing multiple teams and engineering/automation managers
Extensive experience with owning and driving data pipeline strategies, ETL (Airflow), transformation, API services, search technologies (ElasticSearch, Solr, Lucene)
Experience with data warehousing (Redshift, Snowflake), data quality tooling & measurement frameworks
Experience with modern frameworks (e.g., Go/React), distributed computing platforms (kubernetes), and public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)
Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, and delivery
Leadership on multiple well-known products throughout their life cycles, from idea conception to product release and maintenance
Proven success in working with product, marketing, business, and operations divisions
Examples of engineers for whom you've guided their technical and career progress
BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience, MS/Ph.D. preferred

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. Our entrepreneurship principles bind us together and inform how we tackle the tremendous challenges ahead.

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.

Do your best work, be your authentic self.

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