Engineering Manager, ML/Pricing

| San Francisco, CA | Hybrid
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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.


We are looking for an Engineering Manager on our Pricing Engineering team who can help optimize our pricing systems to serve both the business as well as our customers. Pricing is at the heart of what makes Opendoor a viable business, and we need expertise in data, machine learning, and tooling to build systems that help us deliver optimal prices to serve our customers and manage towards our P&L. You will mentor and lead teams of Engineers to build sophisticated algorithms, world class tooling, rigorous strategic experiments, and be a thought partner for our data science and business counterparts,, all while getting first hand experience scaling a complex business and growing an organization You will lead, manage, and inspire engineers to ship software that solves customer problems. As a hands-on leader with a bias towards action, you’ll help the team fulfill complex technical, operational, and business requirements.

As an Engineering Manager, you will:

  • Help build and lead great software teams to deliver world-class products
  • 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

We are looking for teammates who have:

  • 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
  • 5+ years managing data related products (ads, recommendations, fraud)
  • Fluency in full stack web development (e.g. React, API design, Rails, Postgres)
  • Prior experience with data processing technology (e.g. Spark, Hadoop) and workflow management tools (e.g. Airflow, dbt)
  • 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 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 full stack, backend, and MLEs 

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 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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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
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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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