Full Stack 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
- Production experience with Ruby on Rails and any frontend framework (React, Vue, etc.)
- 3+ years building and delivering high quality, user-centered software solutions
- Experience and desire to operate in an early-stage, fast-paced, ambiguous environment
- Excellent communication skills. Clear written and oral communication is important to our ability to operate as a remote team and drive changes across the business
- Production experience with large React codebases
- Knowledge of responsive design principles and mobile-first development
What the job involves
- The Exclusives team is looking for a Fullstack Engineer to help build the future of the Exclusives platform
- In addition to playing a pivotal role in building out new features, you’ll be a key part of establishing and championing a culture of learning, delivering results, and looking for opportunities to improve the product, process, and team
- Work with product and design on our users’ biggest problems to brainstorm solutions, build prototypes, and release new features in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Working alongside other engineers, you’ll engage in code reviews, mentor other developers, and help set the standards for Exclusives engineering
- Investigate and propose new technologies and libraries that help the team deliver value to our users faster and more reliably
- Work closely with our operations team to identify ways that technology can remove friction and allow them to more efficiently help our customers
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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