About Homeward

Buying a home should be an exciting milestone. But all too often, it’s stressful, especially in a competitive market or when you’re buying and selling at the same time. So we’re redesigning the home-buying experience. We’re a fast-paced real estate startup that empowers agents to help homebuyers buy with cash. We buy homes on behalf of our partners’ clients with our cash, then the client buys the home back from us. 

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer two services — Buy with cash and Buy before you sell. 

We’ve raised more than $160MM in equity capital from top-tier venture investors, including Norwest, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Adams Street, Javelin, and LiveOak. Our leadership team includes experts from the real estate, mortgage, and technology industries.

About the Role

We're seeking a Data Engineering Manager to help us build a simpler, more customer-centric home buying and selling experience in partnership with real estate agents.  Data is a crucial part of Homeward’s mission to streamline the home buying and selling process, and this position will be key to advancing and focusing our capabilities in the next stage of growth.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of the next evolution of our data infrastructure, including our event streaming platform, data pipeline, and data lake / warehouse.
• Hire, manage, mentor, and develop data engineering team members  Own and continually refine our overall platform strategy 
• Work with product managers and leadership to design and build solutions that fulfill operational and reporting needs throughout the company
• Drive and define best practices for our data organization in terms of coding, agile processes, and building highly reliable, scalable systems
• Be responsible for the delivery of business impact through data products and services
• Strong ability to prioritize and communicate to technical and non-technical audiences alike

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in software or data engineering fields with hands-on technology experience, with 2+ years of management experience
• Strong expertise with an object-oriented/object function scripting language like Python or Scala and a solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals
• Experience deploying and using data streaming platforms (such as Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, GCP Pub/Sub, etc.), programmatic orchestration frameworks (such as Airflow or Oozie), and Docker/Kubernetes
• Good working knowledge of SQL and familiarity with a variety of relational and non-relational databases 
• Experience with AWS cloud offerings (S3, EC2, Redshift, EKS, Lambda, etc)
• Experience building and managing high performing data engineering teams

Our Values

THE GOLDEN RULE
Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we follow The Golden Rule, treating others the way we want to be treated. It’s a simple rule, but it’s also significant: we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

CALM FOCUS
We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. So it’s important that we focus on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next. If something is out of scope, we say “No.” If something feels rushed, we pump the brakes. This calm focus helps us create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM
Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experience holistically, and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams. This approach extends to cooperation among our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage, and Homeward Title — and results in a better homebuying experience.