Compass is a residential real estate platform and brokerage founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City. The company pairs agents with proprietary technology designed to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless, giving agents more time to advise clients. Its engineering teams build the Compass proprietary real estate platform, which is deployed across more than 400 offices and 96 markets.
Technical work spans platform development, business technology and design, with professionals from real estate, engineering, business, marketing and design working alongside one another. The company describes its culture as combining a startup's solutions-driven mindset with the sophistication of a luxury brand, and places weight on recruiting senior technical talent.
In scale, Compass employs more than 33,000 agents across 96 markets in the United States and is the largest independent real estate brokerage in the country. The company operates in the residential real estate and proptech verticals, with a stated mission that everyone deserves to find their place in the world.
