Senior Engineering Manager
Opendoor
About the Team
The Listing & Maintenance team’s mission is to deliver a best-in-class home buying experience for prospective customers by gathering and distributing the most accurate home information while providing Opendoor operators with intelligent listing capabilities and tools.
Additionally, as a Senior Engineering leader at Opendoor, you will mentor and lead teams of engineers to build scalable products, rapidly ship new experiences, and be a thought partner for our business and operations 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.
Role Responsibilities:
- Help build and lead great software teams to deliver world-class products
- Hire, retain and grow your direct reports and peer teams
- Champion engineering and operations, establishing metrics and processes 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 of excellence
- Proactively identify risks and unblock teams
- Uncover better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it
Skills Needed:
- 12+ years of software development work experience
- 4+ years of experience as a hands-on technical engineering manager, managing team of 5-10 engineers
- 2+ years of experience managing other engineering managers
- Experience designing and architecting highly scalable applications
- Proven track record of leading productive engineering teams and shipping world class products
- Experience actively coaching and mentoring team members in their careers
- Instituted consistent cultural choices that positively impact all of engineering
- Passion to build and lead high performing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- A bias towards action and an iterative approach to problem-solving
- Instituted consistent cultural choices that positively impact all of engineering
- A high level of organization and the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
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