Opendoor is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Opendoor's Consumer Tooling team as a Staff Software Engineer to revolutionize the Real Estate industry by applying cutting-edge technologies and delivering a best-in-class home buying and selling experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
• A track record of approximately 12+ years of solving platform-level problems for multiple teams across the stack by building and delivering production quality 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
• Strong sense of ownership and customer empathy: Our mission is to create a seamless customer experience; understanding the intricacies of the customer journey and being proactive about doing right by our customers is critical to our success
• Strong engineering fundamentals: we value transferable experience writing & debugging code, scaling existing services, and designing/architecting software systems
• Proven expertise in their technology of choice. Ideally full-stack development experience using React, GraphQL, Ruby, Golang, ElasticSearch, and PostgresSQL

Responsibilities

• Define and guide the team’s technical strategies, vision, decisions and architecture that enable a simple, certain customer experience
• Collaborate with various engineering teams and product managers to understand their needs and build tooling features that both meet the immediate need and fit into the larger platform vision
• Level up the organization by mentoring backend and frontend engineers in system design, technical decisions and technical project management
• Contribute to all phases of software development cycle - ideation, build and release - with a bias towards action but consideration for long-term maintainability and scalability
• Partner with your engineering manager and product manager to define our roadmap and advocate for platform adoption and technical excellence across the organization