Senior Engineering Manager - Data

Senior Engineering Manager - Data

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About Opendoor

Founded in 2014, Opendoor’s mission is to empower everyone with the freedom to move. 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, certain and fast. We have assembled a dedicated team with diverse backgrounds to support more than 100,000 homes bought and sold with us and the customers who have selected Opendoor as a trusted partner in handling one of their largest financial transactions. But the work is far from over as we continue to grow in new markets. Transforming the real estate industry takes tenacity and dedication. It takes problem solvers and builders. It takes a tight knit community of teammates doing the best work of their lives, pushing one another to transform a complicated process into a simple one.  So where do you fit in? Whether you’re passionate about real estate, people, numbers, words, code, or strategy -- we have a place for you. Real estate is broken. Come help us fix it.

About the Team
The Data team develops the data platform that underlies Opendoor’s business. We’re responsible for both our systems and content. Our focus ranges from integrating with Multiple Listing Services (MLS) to building and maintaining the Data Warehouse solutions that drive algorithmic and interactive data models. We utilize our own proprietary, specialized systems as well as third-party tools from Open Source and Cloud-based providers. Our systems support clients who work with data in applications developed in various languages (including Python, Go, and Ruby) as well as with different latency and SLA profiles.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who can help us build the systems to scale up our data acquisition, ingestion, and processing efforts to 100x where it is today. As the engineering manager for this team, you will mentor and lead the software engineers that will be at the center of this data. Your team will build the platform to empower the rest of the company to seamlessly ingest and process data, track data quality, report reliability metrics, and catalog output tables. Our future data science research direction, machine learning strategy, and analytics will run through your team. As a hands-on leader for this team, we will be looking to you to steward the vision and lead the charge to support that future.

Role Responsibilities

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

Skills Needed

    • BS or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
    • Quantitative experience, either via previous job experience or a degree in Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
    • 4+ years of experience building production software systems
    • 2+ years managing data platform related products (data processing, data warehousing, data ingestion)
    • Prior experience with data processing technology (e.g. Spark, Hadoop) and workflow management tools (e.g. Airflow, dbt)
    • Prior experience handling complex external data ingestion involving a variety of types of data
    • Proven ability to use data and metrics to drive decisions
    • History of independently leading cross-functional projects and prioritizing work based on business impact
    • Ability to understand the needs of stakeholders, define business requirements, and architect systems that will scale and extend to accommodate them over time
    • Expertise in breaking down complex problems, documenting solutions, and sequencing work to make iterative improvements
    • A sense of ownership and a passion for delighting customers through innovation and creative solutions to complex problems
    • Excellent communication skills and high attention to detail
    • Experience hiring, mentoring, and leading teams of software engineers, data engineers, and project managers
For CO Residents Only, and in accordance with C.R.S. Sec. 8-5-101 et seq., the estimated base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $240,000 per year. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position in question based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change.  Individual pay is based upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors.  For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and other available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply for the role and are selected for an interview.

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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.

We Offer the Following Benefits and Perks
• Full medical, dental, and vision with optional 85% coverage for dependents
• Flexible vacation policy
• 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. For California residents: for more information about the categories of personal information that we collect for recruiting purposes, please see our personnel Privacy Policy.

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