About the Team

The Listing & Maintenance team’s mission is to deliver a best-in-class home buying experience for prospective customers by gathering and distributing the most accurate home information while providing Opendoor operators with intelligent listing capabilities and tools.

Additionally, as a Senior Engineering leader at Opendoor, you will mentor and lead teams of engineers to build scalable products, rapidly ship new experiences, and be a thought partner for our business and operations counterparts, all while getting first-hand experience scaling a complex business and growing an organization. You will lead, manage, and inspire engineers to ship software that solves customer problems. As a hands-on leader with a bias towards action, you’ll help the team fulfill technical, operational, and business requirements.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Help build and lead great software teams to deliver world-class products
  • Hire, retain and grow your direct reports and peer teams
  • Champion engineering and operations, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers
  • Working closely with product and design, help engineers gain business context, improve prioritization skills, and hone their craft
  • Promote an engaged, product-focused, positive engineering culture of excellence
  • Proactively identify risks and unblock teams  
  • Uncover better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it

Skills Needed:

  • 12+ years of software development work experience
  • 4+ years of experience as a hands-on technical engineering manager, managing team of 5-10 engineers
  • 2+ years of experience managing other engineering managers
  • Experience designing and architecting highly scalable applications
  • Proven track record of leading productive engineering teams and shipping world class products
  • Experience actively coaching and mentoring team members in their careers
  • Instituted consistent cultural choices that positively impact all of engineering
  • Passion to build and lead high performing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. 
  • A bias towards action and an iterative approach to problem-solving
  • Instituted consistent cultural choices that positively impact all of engineering
  • A high level of organization and the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

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More About Us

To learn how we are reinventing the Real Estate industry check out our website, to hear about our culture directly from team members visit The Muse and to discover what we are building for our customers read our blog posts.

About Opendoor

Founded in 2014, Opendoor’s mission is to power life’s progress one move at a time. We believe the traditional real estate process is broken and our goal is simple: build a digital, end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple and certain. 

  • To learn how we are reinventing the Real Estate industry check out our website
  • Hear about our culture directly from team members by visiting The Muse
  • Discover what we are building for our customers by reading our blog.

Opendoor Values Openness

We believe that being open about who we are and what we do allows us to be better. Individuals seeking employment at Opendoor are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other protected status under all applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. We collect, use, and disclose applicant personal information as described in our personnel privacy policies. To learn more, you can find the policy details for California residents here and for Canada residents here.

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