Software Engineer, Opendoor
Corporate Engineering
CA$132-181k
Plus RSUs and bonuses
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
CA$132-181k
Plus RSUs and bonuses
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power life's progress one move at a time.
Role
Who you are
- Deep conviction that AI and automation should eliminate manual work humans shouldn't be doing anyway. You're excited to experiment rapidly with AI agents, LLM integrations, and intelligent workflow orchestration
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with Python, Go, or similar languages, with strong skills in API development, systems integration, and automation platforms
- Strong experience with public cloud platforms (AWS preferred) including serverless architectures, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD pipeline development
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and modern DevOps practices including GitOps, automated testing, and observability
- Proven problem-solving ability to understand complex business workflows, identify automation opportunities, and design elegant technical solutions
- Humility and genuine curiosity—you're as excited to automate employee onboarding as you are to architect distributed systems, and you see eliminating mundane work as deeply meaningful engineering. You genuinely enjoy understanding user needs, partnering with non-technical stakeholders, and building software that makes their work easier
Desirable
- Experience with corporate IT APIs and platforms (Okta, Google Workspace, MDM systems, HRIS, financial systems)
- Background in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or internal tools development
- Track record of building self-service portals, chatbots, or AI-powered automation
- M.S. in Computer Science
What the job involves
- Build intelligent agents and automation that eliminate manual toil—provisioning access, configuring devices, onboarding employees, and maintaining compliance without human intervention
- Architect integrations across corporate platforms (Okta, HRIS, MDM, SaaS management) to create seamless automated employee lifecycle experiences
- Partner with stakeholders across HR, Finance, Security, and Operations to understand their workflows, identify automation opportunities, and deliver software solutions that increase their velocity
- Build security guardrails and observability into corporate infrastructure that enables teams to move safely and fast
- Apply Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevOps/GitOps, and software engineering best practices to corporate systems
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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