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Engineering @ Opendoor
Building an experience that allows you to move with the click of a button
Maggie Moreno
Senior Software Engineer
Otieno Ododa
Director of Engineering, Infrastructure
Daniel Zhang
Engineering Manager & Senior Software Engineer
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Maggie Moreno:
How much do candidates need to know about your industry?
If most engineering teams do 90, of their work the same, what's your 10?
Since being at Opendoor, what have you learned or how have you grown?
What's the most internally controversial decision that you've made about your stack?
Otieno Ododa:
How does the engineering team contribute to the core business goals at Opendoor?
What makes the team effective?
What moment are you in as a team?
What qualities do you look for in candidates?
Daniel Zhang:
How much agency or impact does each individual engineer have at the company?
Since being at Opendoor, what have you learned or how have you grown?
Where do feature ideas come from?
Which company value resonates with you most?
Why do people stay at 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. Our engineering team is helping to redefine a $1.9 trillion dollar industry that hasn’t upgraded its technology in decades. And in just a few years, we’ve already turned the traditional real estate model on its head by helping our customers buy and sell their home with just a few clicks -- and with a 80+ NPS at that. But the work is far from over as we continue to grow in new markets. Real estate is broken. Come help us fix it.
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Team member Q&A.
Maggie Moreno
Senior Software Engineer
How much do candidates need to know about your industry?
If most engineering teams do 90, of their work the same, what's your 10?
Since being at Opendoor, what have you learned or how have you grown?
What's the most internally controversial decision that you've made about your stack?
Otieno Ododa
Director of Engineering, Infrastructure
How does the engineering team contribute to the core business goals at Opendoor?
What makes the team effective?
What moment are you in as a team?
What qualities do you look for in candidates?
Daniel Zhang
Engineering Manager & Senior Software Engineer
How much agency or impact does each individual engineer have at the company?
Since being at Opendoor, what have you learned or how have you grown?
Where do feature ideas come from?
Which company value resonates with you most?
Why do people stay at Opendoor?
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Collaboration Practices
- Scrum
- Daily team standup
- Weekly team meetings
- Monthly all-hands
- Quarterly off-site retreat
- Team-level OKRs
Hours & location
- Work in US time zones
- Mixed on-site and remote
- Flexible work hours
Tools we use
Frontend:
- React
- TypeScript
- GraphQL
- styled-components
- Storybook
Backend:
- Ruby on Rails
- Go
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- gRPC
- Kafka
- Protobuf
Tools:
- Gong.io
- Slack
- GitHub
- Datadog
- Concourse CI
- Sentry
- Splunk
- Snowflake
- Google Workspace
- Jira
- Confluence
Useful links
- Learn about our engineering culture from Mark Kinsella, VP of Engineering.
- Listen to this IT Visionaries podcast to hear Kushal Chakrabarti, VP of Research and Data Science, explain how Opendoor uses algorithms to help buy and sell homes.
- Read this Q&A with Chief Product Officer Tom Willerer about why Opendoor has expanded its product portfolio to address the booming real estate market.
- Listen to The Data Chief podcast to hear our Co-Founder and CTO, Ian Wong, discuss his thoughts on how Opendoor is disrupting the real estate industry with data-driven digital transformation.
- Watch this interview with our CFO, Carrie Wheeler, on how Opendoor is expanding into new markets, the impact of the business cycle on iBuying, and the real estate outlook.
- Read this profile of Heather Natour, Head of Engineering, from SheCanCode.
- Check out this blog post about our Python monorepo and this one about how we made our maps 10x faster.
- Watch this segment from Good Morning America about sellers turning to new platforms such as Opendoor.
- We reached 100K transactions! Check out more about our growth here.
Company-level stats
- B2B
- Technical founder(s)
- CEO is a founder
- Publicly traded
- B2C
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