Sr Software Engineering Manager

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 Team The Opendoor Title and Escrow Intelligent Document Processing Team is dedicated to automating the extensive data collection process related to Real Estate transactions. You will be responsible for building an industry-leading, fault-tolerant, Document Processing Engine using modern software, cloud technologies, and architectures. Role Responsibilities: The Software Engineering Manager will be responsible for working directly with our product team to deliver and execute a strategic product roadmap and portfolio. Key responsibilities for this role are to: 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 Spend 10 - 20% of time actively contributing to the code, executing on development work items and reviewing merge requests   Skills Needed: 10+ years of software development work experience 2+ years of experience as a hands-on technical engineering manager, managing team of 5-10 engineers Experience designing and architecting highly scalable applications Proven track record of leading productive engineering teams and shipping world class products Experience with ETL processes and API Architectures 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 Remote roles in India are Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru #LI-Remote #LI-NR2 More About Us To learn how we are reinventing the Real Estate industry check out  our website , to hear about our culture directly from team members visit  The Muse  and to discover what we are building for our customers read our  blog posts .