Senior Software Engineer (Data Infrastructure)

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About Opendoor:

Are you intrigued by the thought of disrupting a trillion dollar industry through technology? At Opendoor, we’re on a mission to make it simple to buy and sell homes. The traditional process is broken, with an average home taking over 90 days to sell and costing thousands of dollars. We empower everyone with the freedom to move by making buying and selling a home stress-free and instant. We’ve built an exceptional team, seen strong growth, served over 80,000 customers (with an annual run rate of $5 billion), and raised $1.3 billion in funding. With Covid-19, the world is changing, and real estate is no exception. The coming years present a tremendous opportunity for innovation as we explore new frontiers and scale nationwide.

About the Role: 

The role of the Backend Engineering team is to form the foundation for data processing and exploration at Opendoor. One component is producing a world class data set for our pricing and machine learning algorithms. Real estate data is a complex and challenging data domain, and to put things into perspective, a single piece of inaccurate data can cause hundreds of thousands of dollars of swings in home value. Another component is building platforms and tools to allow our analysts and data scientists to iterate on state of the art machine learning and pricing algorithms, which are critical to serving our customers and ensuring Opendoor is a sustainable business. As Opendoor continues to transact on billions of dollars of homes, the Backend Engineering team continues to lie at the core of Opendoor’s product and business strategy. 

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Processing large amounts of real estate and transactional data in batch and real time to generate a highly accurate world class real estate data set.
  • Understanding how to quantify uncertainty with our data.
  • Deriving fields from unstructured data (e.g. extracting data from home photos and satellite images with Computer vision algorithms, extracting data from MLS remarks with natural language processing).
  • Performing analysis to ensure our datasets are robust and reliable for machine learning and business use cases.
  • Applying deep understanding of data processing technologies to reason about engineering / design tradeoffs.
  • Working with data processing technologies such as Spark, Airflow, Pytorch, Jupyter, and Pandas

We're looking for teammates who have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
  • 6+ years of track record in building and delivering production quality software systems 
  • A deep understanding of data processing technologies such as SQL, Spark, Hadoop, and Kafka
  • Experience with Airflow, Luigi, or other ETL scheduling technologies
  • The ability to propose and test hypothesis to problems, and drive toward the best solution whilst starting with incomplete information
  • Experience with building resilient and reliable systems or data pipelines
  • A focus on rapid delivery without sacrificing technical excellence
  • Care for modular, performant and testable code

Bonus points:

  • Love delighting customers with honest, transparent products and experiences
  • Experience working with AWS, microservice architecture, Python/Go/Scala, Kubernetes
  • Experience working with GIS Data

More About Us

Want to learn more about us and how we are revolutionizing the home buying and selling process? Learn more about us on our website, check out our profile on The Muse to learn more about our culture from our team members, or read our blog posts to hear about the work we are doing.

We Offer the Following Benefits and Perks:

- Full medical, dental, and vision with optional 70% coverage for dependents

- Flexible vacation policy

- Commuter Benefit stipend

- Generous parental leave

- Paid time off to volunteer

Please note that these benefits and perks are available only to Full Time team members and do not apply to contract roles.

Opendoor values Openness

Our team celebrates our diverse backgrounds. 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 regards 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.

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  • Engineering
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Location

San Francisco, CA

An Insider's view of Opendoor

What's the biggest problem your team is solving?

My team works with our sales and support operators. We manage our multiple telephony platforms, including our call center software. Last year, we replaced our old call center vendor solution with a new custom-built telephony platform. Building the unique features each team has been one of our central challenges for much of the past year.

Maggie

Sr. Software Engineer

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

I started at Opendoor as an intern, responsible for small improvements to our home valuation model’s accuracy. Now, I am one of the leaders on our team - I’m responsible for setting team vision, overseeing systems design for other IC’s, and leading P0 initiatives such as a pricing workflow overhaul that we launched after COVID-19.

Daniel

Software Engineer

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

Analytical problem solving requires creativity too. I always encourage my team to consider all the tradeoffs between different options - what if you need to solve the problem in 1 day? How about 6 months? How about unlimited compute resources? We often come up with more creative and better solutions when we intentionally consider all options.

Sherry

Data Science Manager

What are Opendoor Perks + Benefits

Culture
Volunteer in local community
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Employee stock purchase plan
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Relocation assistance
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Lunch and learns

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