Software Engineer – Backend, Pricing

Opendoor•Seattle, WA

12d

About The Position

The Pricing team is the engine behind Opendoor’s ability to price homes with speed, scale, and confidence. We build the core platform that turns data, models, and business logic into the prices that power our entire business. We own mission-critical services and data infrastructure that support pricing decisions and automation. Our systems must be fast, accurate, and resilient—because small improvements can translate into major business impact. As a software engineer on the team, you’ll collaborate with data scientists, machine learning engineers, product managers, and partner engineering and operations teams to turn ideas into resilient, production-ready systems. You’ll see your work move from design to deployment quickly and have meaningful ownership over how our pricing platform evolves and how we shape the future of real estate.

Requirements

5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
Significant experience building and operating production systems in Go or Python
Deep proficiency with SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
Strong track record designing, building, and evolving APIs in a microservices environment
Experience with distributed systems concepts (scalability, consistency, resiliency, monitoring)
Experience leading technical projects from design through rollout and support
Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies
Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor AI, Github Copilot)
Experience with BPMN or other workflow engines and long-running business processes
Experience with Redis or other caching / storage optimization technologies
Experience with gRPC and service-to-service communication patterns at scale
Prior experience in pricing, marketplaces, or other data-intensive domains

Responsibilities

Own the design, implementation, and evolution of core pricing services
Design data models and write high-performance SQL over large PostgreSQL datasets
Architect and improve APIs and integrations with Opendoor’s core marketplace platform
Lead technical design reviews and set best practices for code quality, testing, and observability
Partner with data science to productionize pricing models and build robust model-serving pipelines
Drive reliability, latency, and scalability improvements across pricing systems
Mentor other engineers and help grow the technical capabilities of the team
Collaborate with product and cross-functional partners to define and deliver roadmap projects end to end