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 Pricing Team is responsible for the engineering of quantitative systems and models driving Opendoor’s business. From supporting research on our Automated Valuation Model, and launching those models in production, to building interactive tools that allow us to marry human insight with algorithms, Pricing keeps all of our business lines healthy and growing. Our goal is to enable Opendoor to serve our customers by providing accurate, quantitative assessments of value and risk — which in turn allows us to offer competitive fees and a great end-user experience for buyers and sellers alike. 

As a Staff Software Engineer on Pricing, you will architect, design, and develop platforms, services, and tools to tackle a variety of challenges related to price optimization, inventory management, forecasting, workflow automation, and more. With a strong background in software development and quantitative thinking, you will collaborate with research, product, and engineering teams to understand requirements, build prototypes, invent new features, and deliver highly scalable services and products that enable delightful customer experiences. We are looking for engineers with a proven ability to deliver results, a passion to learn, and expertise in service-oriented architectures, distributed systems, algorithms, analytics, databases, and front-end technologies.

Role Responsibilities

• Working with product, machine learning engineers, and data scientists to contribute to all phases of software development including ideation, prototyping, design, and production.
• Building products and services from scratch, as well as evolving existing systems.
• Developing tools to support the unique challenges of pricing homes at Opendoor, such as custom human data labeling tools or a workflow orchestrator.
• Applying your technical and quantitative expertise to guide the team in making intelligent, scalable, and pragmatic design decisions
• Influencing the technology and architectural roadmap of the engineering teams.
• Playing an active role in hiring and mentoring other engineers.
• Building deep domain expertise in pricing and real estate

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.
• 6+ years of experience building production software systems.
• Excellent programming skills, preferably in Python, and strong computer science fundamentals.
• Prior experience with data processing technology (e.g. Spark, Hadoop) and workflow management tools (e.g. Airflow, dbt).
• 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.

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• Full medical, dental, and vision with optional 85% coverage for dependents

• Flexible vacation policy

• Generous parental leave

• Paid time off to volunteer

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.