Senior Data Scientist - Homebase

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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 Role:

As a senior data scientist on the Homebase data platform team, you will be responsible for building customer-facing data products in partnership with our engineering and product teams. This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise working with data and algorithms towards building market-leading real estate data products such as rental price estimates, geospatial mappings, comparable home rankings & more. We’re a small team dedicated to moving quickly and your work will be foundational in shaping our data science capabilities for years to come.


As a Senior Data Scientist, you will: 

- Identify data science methods appropriate to solving business challenges

- Evaluate new data sources to determine which can provide reliable and useful signals

- Partner with engineering and product to bring models from prototype to production

- Establish best practices for rigorous, trusted, reproducible data science work

- Become a domain expert in real estate,


We’re looking for teammates who have:

- 5+ years experience working in data science or research science

- Expertise in causal inference and machine learning modeling

- - Proficiency in SQL and R, Python or a similar programming language

Experience scheduling and operating data processing workflows.


Bonus points if you have worked in:

- Geospatial data processing

- Time series analysis & forecasting

- Real estate or financial services

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

- 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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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
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
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
The program allows qualified employees to purchase company shares at a discounted price.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Floating holidays
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Relocation assistance
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program

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