Senior Frontend Engineer

At Opendoor, we’re on a mission to make it simple to buy and sell homes. The traditional process is broken, with an average home taking over 90 days to sell and costing thousands of dollars. We make buying and selling a home stress-free and instant. We’ve built an exceptional team, have raised over $100 million from top-notch investors and are growing fast, buying and selling more than $75 million of homes per month.

We’re seeking an exceptional Frontend Engineer to join our lean Engineering team as we define, prototype, and build web apps for our customers and for our team. Every engineer at Opendoor has an outsized impact, and you'll lead the development of projects that define the future of the company.

As a Frontend Engineer you will:

• Build apps from scratch, as well as develop existing applications.
• Guide the team in making intelligent and pragmatic technical trade-offs.
• Design and implement user-facing products and internal workflow tools.
• Apply deep understanding of web technologies to reason about engineering / design tradeoffs.
• Become a domain expert in real estate.

We’re looking for teammates who bring:

• Care about building an app right - with attention to pixels and clean, well-tested code
• Expert knowledge of JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS
• Passion and an understanding of the nuances of web technologies
• Good grasp of Angular (or similar frameworks) and the concepts behind it
• Ability to write high-performance, reusable code for UI components and a strong sense for good UI/UX
• Experience building large, modular and maintainable JavaScript code bases

Bonus points:

• Expertise in server side programming
• You love delighting customers with honest, transparent products and experiences

Who you’ll work with:

Nolan Evans

Nolan was our first engineering hire and now leads our engineering team. Before that Nolan was lead engineer on redacted on the Siri team at Apple and a Senior Engineer at Square.

Visnu Pitiyanuvath

Visnu joined Opendoor from Square, and is an active member of the javascript community. He is usually accompanied by his small white dog, Coco.

Daniel LaGrotta

Dan previously led the data engineering team at Addepar. He is also Opendoor’s reigning chess champion.

… and the rest of our team!

Opendoor values Openness

Our team celebrates our diverse backgrounds, 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.

This position is for employment at will and not for any definite time period.