Senior Android Engineer
Company: Compass
Location: Boston
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
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 benefit our customers. Outside of product-driven
projects, 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. 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 product roadmap and proactively
suggesting architectural changes that enable new categories of user
experiences Guide the team to make technical trade offs necessary
to bring product 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, may lead other engineers Modularization and
Architecture. Architect and lead the transition toward a highly
modularized codebase to improve build speeds and team fungibility,
ensuring our architecture scales with our growing engineering
organization. Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high
quality tests Have a strong stance and advocate for efficient,
scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems
in a manner that stands the test of time Hold yourself and the 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 Oversee and 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 9 years of professional Android development
experience using Kotlin and shipping apps to the Play Store 3 years
of experience with modern Kotlin development practices, such as
Jetpack Compose and Flow. Experience with 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
services Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills Passion about
mentoring and helping more junior engineers to grow Compensation:
The base pay range for this position is $131,000-$197,000; 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.et. Perks that You Need to
Know About: Participation in our incentive programs (which may
include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation,
holidays, sick time, parental leave, and 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); Carrot
(fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network);
Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance. 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. Notice for
California Applicants Los Angeles County Fair Chance Notice
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