Senior Android Engineer

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. 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 and your Product and Design counterparts to take projects from idea to done with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. You will be responsible for understanding Product 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 and trade offs are considered pragmatically, with a well-reasoned and understood solution being executed upon. You will guide more junior engineers with technical problems, ensuring that they follow best practices from an engineering and operational excellence perspective. Your influence won’t end once a project ships: you will be relied upon by Product and Design to give an engineering perspective on how we can iteratively improve a product to better [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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. You will also act as a mentor for more junior engineers, helping them grow from both a technical and career perspective. What you will do: Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems Act as a strategic partner to Product and Design, using technical insights to influence the produ [... source excerpt omitted ...] th Kotlin Multiplatform is a plus but not mandatory Ability to collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders to implement solutions which surprise and delight our customers Master Computer Science fundamentals and Android design patterns and best practices A sheer eye for design and attention to detail, the products you build should not merely be functional but should take in context and anticipate our customer’s needs in a beautiful way Experience leading the development of a project from planning to release, dispatching work among a team, mentoring and guiding junior engineers Experience with AI tools Experience integrating with RESTful server-side service