Senior Staff Engineer, Opendoor
Platform
$232-290k
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
Be an early applicant
$232-290k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power life's progress one move at a time.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of experience in engineering, with a proven track record of leading complex projects
- Expertise in Go, Ruby, Kubernetes and AWS are beneficial
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities
- Experience mentoring and leading technical teams
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Engineer to join our team
- In this role, you will take on leadership responsibilities in designing, developing, and optimizing complex systems and solutions
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams, providing technical expertise and guidance while mentoring junior engineers
- Your deep knowledge in backend software development will be crucial in driving innovation, setting technical direction, and solving critical challenges
- You will also contribute to strategic planning, ensuring best practices, and maintaining high-quality standards across projects
- This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Lead and drive the technical direction of engineering projects
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize systems
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers and technical teams
- Solve complex technical challenges and ensure the highest quality standards
- Contribute to long-term strategic planning and technical decision-making
- Advocate for best practices, ensuring efficient processes and continuous improvement
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, if Opendoor can continue to ride on this success long term it will have an enormous lead on existing and future competitors, giving it a shot to 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
Carrie Wheeler
(CEO)Initially joined Opendoor in 2019 as a Board Member, before becoming the CFO in 2020 and CEO in 2022. Previously a Partner and the Head of Retail and COnsumer Investing at TPG Capital as well as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs.
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