Engineering Manager, Seller Products
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:
We are looking for an Engineering Manager on our Seller Products who can help deliver the best home selling experience on earth. There are millions of home moves per year, and we believe all of them should consider Opendoor as an option. You will mentor and lead teams of Engineers to build scalable products, rapidly ship experiments, and be a thought partner for our business and marketing 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 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 operations, 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 design, 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're looking for teammates who have:
- Passion for managing talented engineers in a fast-paced environment
- 3+ years of relevant engineering work experience, with 2+ as hands-on technical manager
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
- Experience with architectural patterns of large applications
- Proven track record of leading productive engineering teams and shipping products
- Instituted consistent cultural choices that positively impact all of engineering
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. A bias towards action and an iterative approach to problem solving
- Experience actively coaching and mentoring team members in their careers
- Instituted consistent cultural choices that positively impact all of engineering
- A high level of organization and the the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
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.