Senior Growth Engineer, Opendoor
$170-213k
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End-to-end online platform for selling and buying homes
Open for applications
End-to-end online platform for selling and buying homes
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$170-213k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with the freedom to move by giving people an easy way to buy, sell, and trade in their homes.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, with a strong track record of technical leadership and impactful contributions. A track record of 5+ years of software engineering experience building consumer products
- Technical Skills: Advanced, proven expertise in our frontend stack: Javascript/TypeScript, React, GraphQL, NextJS, and Remix. Ideally,
- Experience in mobile app development using React Native
- Experience implementing advanced animations in CSS
- Experience with backend development (Go, Ruby, Postgres)
- Experience running A/B tests with experimentation platforms (Amplitude Experiment, Optimizely, etc.)
- Product Sense: Ability to make data-driven product decisions, working with Product and various stakeholders to build products that start and end with the customer
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead projects, mentor junior engineers, and take initiative in driving technical excellence
- Architectural Skills: Deep understanding of software architecture, with the ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs and propose improvements
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to solve complex technical challenges independently
What the job involves
- The Growth team at Opendoor is committed to revolutionizing the real estate experience by leveraging data-driven insights and innovative strategies to attract, re-engage, and delight our customers
- We aim to create seamless, efficient pathways for home sellers, transforming the way people move
- We are seeking an experienced front-end Senior Software Engineer to join our innovative team at Opendoor
- In this role, you will provide technical leadership in project execution, code quality, architectural discussions, and team culture
- You will lead in your domain area, with your influence extending across the team and gradually impacting the wider business
- Domain Expertise: Regularly apply in-depth knowledge of the business domain to enhance your work and the work of others
- Design and Architecture: Lead design discussions and drive architectural decisions, ensuring alignment with best practices and company standards
- Issue Resolution: Conduct and lead time-critical resolutions of production issues and navigate the team through project pivots
- Complex Problem-Solving: Solve complex technical challenges independently and drive some cross-team initiatives
- Mentorship: Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers within the team
- Stakeholder Engagement: Take a leadership role with stakeholders, translating business goals into technical solutions, facilitating discussions, and identifying gaps
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 2022, 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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
- Full medical, dental, and vision with optional 85% coverage for dependents
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave
- Paid time off to volunteer
Company values
- Start and End with the Customer: We invent, build, and execute to improve the lives of our customers. We put in the hard work when no one is looking to delight customers
- Act from Ownership: When we see a problem, we roll up our sleeves and fix it. We hold ourselves accountable because it’s our home and it’s our responsibility to take care of it
- Build Openness: We are open, honest, and direct about problems and seek the truth. We assume good intentions and treat feedback as a gift
- 1% Better Every Day: We value a growth mindset and operate from a place of humility. We are energized by constantly improving
- Startup Mentality: We move fast, operate with urgency, and bias towards action without sacrificing quality. We are relentlessly resourceful
- One Team, One Dream: Our superpower is a diverse community that combines technology + operational excellence and talent + respect. We work through seams and we care for each other professionally and personally
- Results Matter: We focus on outputs and outcomes and hold ourselves accountable to hitting ambitious goals. We have a high quality bar and pay attention to the pixels, words, and results
- Celebrate Moments: We work tirelessly for our customers and teammates so we take the time to celebrate moments large and small
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Eric Wu
(President)Having studied at the University of Arizona, Eric founded the Real Estate Fund in 2002, before co-founding RentAdvisor.com and Movity.com. He served for 2 years as Head of Geo/Social Products at Trulia.com before co-founding Opendoor in April 2014.
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