Senior Software Engineer II

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack) focused on our Lifecycle Management team, you will use your experience with microservices based architecture to build products that deliver high business impact for our customers. You will lead design and develop services and data pipelines to support an industry leading platform experience while also supporting the growth of the world’s most scalable brokerage.

You are an engineer who is passionate about creating well-defined APIs that are easy to use. You feel it is critical that your voice is heard in product and business decisions. You love to learn, and equally love to share your knowledge with others. You are a great communicator and you take care to understand before making yourself understood.

You are adept at designing highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems that are well-tested and follow best practices like the single responsibility principle and eventual consistency. You possess the full-stack capability to operate on both the backend and frontend components of the application.

Your code is designed for modularity and re-use. You take pride in delivering solid code that is well-tested, peer-reviewed, and follows best practices. You have strong opinions on code structure, style, and development processes.

At Compass You Will: 

• Lead in the architecting of our distributed microservices architecture.
• Collaborate with designers to implement user interface designs.
• Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies
• Write unit tests and integration tests for the delivered features
• Serve as a subject matter expert on monitoring and incident response

• Execute on standard agile development methodology, provide development estimates, and create descriptive jira tickets
• Join a great team with a lot of visibility and some challenging projects on the horizon
• Help with recruitment efforts, mentor your engineering colleagues, write technical documentation, and participate in our backend guilds

What we look for:

• 7+ years of experience writing complete, well-tested, database-driven web applications
• 7+ years of experience programming in languages like Java, Python, and Go (we use all three here at Compass)
• 5+ years of experience with front end design frameworks such as React.
• Experience with multiple products life cycles, from idea conception to product release and maintenance
• Track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact
• Experience designing larger systems: particularly web services and RESTful APIs, microservice architectures, and data ingestion with a particular emphasis of industry-standard best practices
• Strong critical thinking skills, great communication skills and passion for delivering an operational excellence
• In-depth understanding and hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and Redis
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Managed kubernetes, SQS, SNS, and Lambda
• Experience with Kafka and event-driven systems
• BS in CS or EE or comparable job/training experience

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $155K-$197K 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.