Android Senior Software Engineer I ( Contractor throught Deel )
LOCATION: ARGENTINA / URUGUAY/MEXICO ( REMOTE BASED)
Compass envisions a world where the experience of selling or buying a home is simple and pleasant for everyone. Founded in 2012, Compass provides a cloud-based end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to their seller and buyer clients, all in service of its mission to help everyone find their place in the world.
As one of the fastest-growing technology companies in an industry of nearly $4 trillion, Compass has built a world-class engineering team operating the only end-to-end platform in the real estate industry. The platform gives Compass the edge to push the boundaries of value we can add for our customers.
We are looking for an experienced Android engineer to help Compass build a platform that makes the home buying or selling experience delightful. You will be one of the technical leaders in your immediate team. You will work with other engineers to determine how to push our platform forward, devising engineering-led initiatives that ensure we can work quickly and efficiently while maintaining a high standard of operational excellence. Your work will prepare the platform for the future of Real Estate. It will enable present and future engineers to take new projects from idea to completion, directly making an impact in our customers’ day-to-day lives.
Our teams are small, start-up-like, and entrepreneurial, where we value every engineer’s input. We collaborate closely with various engineering partners to take projects from idea to done with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. You will be responsible for understanding requirements and the customer problems they are aiming to solve, distilling them into manageable subparts that can be divided across other engineers on the project.
During a project’s execution, you will act as a leader ensuring any technical questions are considered pragmatically and trade offs considered, with a well-reasoned and understood solution being executed upon. You will guide and act as a mentor for more junior engineers through technical problems, ensuring that they follow best practices from an engineering and operational excellence perspective. You will help them grow from both a technical and career perspective. Your influence won’t end once a project ships: you will be relied upon by various stakeholders to give an engineering perspective on how we can iteratively improve a service or a product to better benefit our customers.
What you will do:
- Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
- Collaborate closely with other engineers to push our platform forward, devising engineering-led initiatives that will prepare the platform for the future of Real Estate
- Evaluate and understand the technical trade offs necessary to bring engineering initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
- Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects
- Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests
- Advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
- Hold yourself and your team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
- Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
- Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
- Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
- Mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence
What we look for:
- BS in CS or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of professional Android development experience using Kotlin and shipping apps to the Play Store
- Ability to collaborate with Engineering and Product stakeholders to implement solutions which surprise and delight our customers, whether they are other engineers or end users
- Understanding of Computer Science fundamentals and Android design patterns and best practices, with the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers
- High attention to detail, the services you build should not merely be functional but should take in context and anticipate our customer’s needs in a thoughtful way
- Experience integrating with RESTful server-side services
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Passion about mentoring and helping more junior engineers to grow
What does the interview process look like?
- Once the team gets your updated resume the first step is a short chat with the recruiting team to get to know you better and also to answer the first questions you might have. You will hear back from Compass within a week, even if you are not a good fit.
- Right after you’ll get an invite to a technical screening interview. This is done by a Compass partner with night and weekend availability, low pressure redo opportunity, paired with a seasoned engineer and objective interview, reducing bias.
- The main loop of interviews is as follows, each interview takes about 60 minutes with 10 minutes reserved at the end so that you can ask questions (we think it’s important that you get to know us too). These interviews are done by Compass Engineers:
- Main Coding interview
- System design interview
- Tech deep dive & cultural fit
Compass offers flexible work environment and benefits package:
- 100% remote work (Flexible around US time zones)
- USD fixed monthly compensation (through Deel)
- Paid local national holidays
- Autonomy in managing delivery of your assignments and time off
- Mac equipment provided
We aims to move fast, the entire process should not take more than 2 weeks.
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