Senior Software Engineer, Opendoor
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End-to-end online platform for selling and buying homes
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End-to-end online platform for selling and buying homes
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power life's progress one move at a time.
Role
Who you are
- A track record of approximately 8+ years of solving platform-level problems for multiple teams across the stack by building and delivering production quality software systems
- Ability and desire to work across our entire stack and a wide array of technologies like NodeJS and front-end infra capabilities and Golang, Python, Ruby for backend capabilities and tooling
- Proven expertise with CI/CD tools and processes, ideally including experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines
- Strong engineering fundamentals: we value transferable experience writing & debugging code, scaling existing services, and designing/architecting software systems
- Excellent communication skills: Clear written and oral communication is important to our ability to operate as a remote team and in building our relationship with our cross-functional partners
- A track record of approximately 5+ years of designing, developing, and operating systems on public cloud (preferably AWS) infrastructure at scale. Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like CloudFormation and Terraform
What the job involves
- The Developer Experience Team at Opendoor is dedicated to shaping a seamless and efficient environment for software development
- Our mission is to enhance service reliability, streamline developer operations, and foster a culture of continuous improvement
- Comprising a dynamic group of individuals, our team is at the forefront of technological advancements, playing a crucial role in Opendoor's growth and success
- Build and maintain internal developer tools and capabilities that expedite developer productivity
- Consolidate and improve our CI/CD capabilities in our monorepo to improve stability and performance
- Find innovative ways to keep our runtime environments, frameworks, and tools current and secure. Implement best practices around testing, deployments, instrumentation, and monitoring to improve system reliability and availability
- Identify and lead key technology debt paydown efforts across a complex monorepo codebase. Projects span security, performance, deprecation, and technical roadmapping
- Contribute to core backend systems and shared libraries to enable product teams and implement infrastructure improvements. Potential areas include Kafka, Sidekiq, and integration testing
Our take
Opendoor makes selling homes easy and stress-free by cutting out the prolonged processing time usually involved with a sale. Sellers can offload a house quickly and easily to the company for cash and a 6-9% fee. Currently operating in a growing number of markets nationwide, Opendoor has chimed well with millennials who gel quickly with online businesses that offer solutions to problems they encounter.
This buying and selling model doesn't come without risk. The longer Opendoor keeps a property, the lower its profit margin. However, Opendoor's performance has been anything but disappointing; it went public in 2021, with its pre-SPAC merger presentation calling for $3.5 billion in revenue. Its actual revenue trounced it, coming in at $8 billion - more than double its estimate.
Opendoor's largest competitor, Zillow, dropped out of the space in late 2021 because it struggled to price the homes it acquired accurately. Opendoor's closest remaining competitor is Offerpad, which does just a fraction of the transaction volume that Opendoor does. With strong earnings coming out of 2024, OpenDoor is looking at transforming its operations in 2026, with new management, a volume-driven strategy and an acquisition spree expected. If Opendoor can continue to ride on its long-term success, it will have an enormous lead on existing and future competitors, positioning it to securely become the overwhelming market leader.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Sep 2018
$400m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Save for tomorrow: Select our Pre-tax or Roth 401k plans to save towards retirement
- Healthy healthcare: Medical, dental and vision is 100% covered for employees
- Family planning: We offer specialty programs like Carrot, Cleo & Ginger
- Flexible vacation: Most of our team take at least 20 days off per year to decompress and be their best
- Resource groups: Join the group that works for you
- Income protection: 100% company sponsored: life insurance short term and long term disability
- Other: Flexible spending account, commuter benefit, employee assistance programs, and paid parental leave
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kaz Nejatian
(CEO)Previously COO and VP of Product at Shopify, Lead Product Manager at Facebook and CEO & Co-Founder at Kash.
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