Manager, Business Systems Engineering - Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM)

Our Compass Integrated Services team powers Next, a brokerage productivity platform that streamlines operational workflows by providing staff with a clear, prioritized view of what needs to happen next. Cases and tasks adapt to the use case, from transaction coordination to welcoming and onboarding new agents. Next improves efficiency while enabling staff to deliver more consistent, high-value support to real estate professionals.

Our team is focused on improving visibility, consistency, and control in transaction execution. We are standardizing how work is created, tracked, and completed within the brokerage environment. Functionally, Next acts as an operational layer connecting people, tasks, and transaction data, enabling brokerages to manage processes more efficiently at scale. As part of Compass's broader broker and transaction tooling, we play a key role in simplifying operational complexity while improving productivity and consistency across distributed teams.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager overseeing Next, you will lead a team of talented software engineers responsible for building the core operational layers, structured task management features, and workflow automation of the Next platform. You will balance technical leadership with people management, ensuring that your team executes efficiently, scales effectively, and maintains a high bar for engineering excellence.

You will work closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to reduce manual coordination for real estate professionals and ensure that critical steps in the transaction process are completed accurately and on time.

At Compass, You Will:

• Build and Lead the Team: Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers (ranging from mid-level to senior/staff). Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and inclusivity.
• Drive Execution and Delivery: Partner closely with Product Managers and Designers to define the roadmap for the Next platform. Own the agile delivery process, ensuring predictable, high-quality releases of workflow automation and transaction management features.
• Guide Technical Strategy: Provide technical guidance and oversight on architecture and system design. Ensure the systems built are scalable, reliable, and easily integrated into the broader Anywhere and Compass ecosystems.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a bridge between your team and external stakeholders. Navigate complex dependencies across different business units, aligning your team's technical strategy with overall company objectives.
• Operational Excellence: Drive the operational health of your team's services. Establish best practices for code quality, testing, deployment, and on-call rotations to ensure high availability of the Next platform.

What We Look For:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years of experience directly managing and leading high-performing engineering teams.
• A strong technical background in building scalable web applications and distributed systems. Experience with modern full-stack technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Go
• Experience with Kafka and event-driven systems
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team.
• Proven track record of using agile principles with multiple teams and products to meet project goals and deliver high quality products.
• Excellent communication skills, utilized to collaborate both within Engineering and across all functions of the company to drive engineering initiatives.
• Excellent mentoring and review skills to help engineers make technical and career progress.
• Exceptional focus on customers by building products that are stable and reliable.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $194,130-$215,700; 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.