At Divvy Homes, we’re building an on-ramp to homeownership – one that’s more flexible, more affordable, and an all-around better fit for today’s American family – and it’s working. Recognized as Time 100’s most influential companies of 2022 and a Great Place to Work, Divvy strives to build a team that can uphold our mission.
Engineering Opportunities
Our goal is to buy thousands of homes in the coming years. Buying a home involves considerable complexity, and we want to remove as much human touch from this as possible. We are building systems to automatically underwrite customers, generate competitive offers, thoroughly and thoughtfully inspect homes, support and service our tenants, and much more.Buying thousands of homes a year requires effective and intelligent software. We have an increasingly complex set of backend systems that ingest housing market data and provide tools to our customers, agents, and operational staff. This presents us with a unique set of challenges as we scale our business. You will gain experience working with a variety of software systems and their unique operational challenges.
We have a documented equal pay policy, and do not negotiate on offers. To maintain fairness and keep starting total comp the same for anyone who comes into that position, individual pay is determined by role, level and work location only. At offer stage, we give candidates 3 different offers to choose from depending on how they want to favor cash vs equity. The US-based salary range for this position is $200,836 to $243,650 + equity + benefits. Please note: We have two different compensation tiers depending on your location. The range displayed reflects the Tier 2 minimum and Tier 1 maximum new hire salary across all US locations. Your Recruiter will discuss the relevant compensation range during your initial screen.
About the Role
Our business is built upon a multitude of processes and critical workflows each with its own unique constraints and data flows. The uptime and reliability of these processes are paramount as we begin to scale our business and company from a small startup to a fine-tuned business. In this role, you will support engineering by building our tooling to streamline our development processes. You will also be responsible for partnering with our product team to define and implement the proper SLOs and SLA. You will be supporting a core portion of our business with a large downstream impact. Attention to detail is critical for this role. You will need to fully understand how your work impacts our operational teams. You will be able to leverage your creativity and unique skill set to make homeownership more accessible and equitable. Our engineering team builds tools to support our consumer, agent, and administrative products. At Divvy, you’ll own projects from start to finish, support your teammates on other projects, and work collectively scaling our platform to thousands of new applicants and housing markets around the country. Projects will require cross-functional collaboration across teams involved in the entire home-buying process. You will work alongside a team of about ~35 engineers, ~8 product managers, ~8 data scientists, and about ~250 other Divvy employees working on different parts of the business.
Responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally to define SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and set up the proper monitoring and alerting to minimize downtime
- Build tools and automation that enhance engineering productivity
- Implement industry-standard best practices that promote reliability, iteration speed, and platform security
- Own our deploy processes and guide us towards continuous deployment
- Understand and own our cloud infrastructure, incident response procedures, and capacity planning
- Manage on-call schedules and escalation processes
- Build tools to automate routine engineering processes in order to minimize the human intervention required to keep the business operating
Skills & Experience:
- You have multiple years of SRE and software engineering experience
- You have worked in environments where you were responsible for understanding and ensuring the reliable operation of deployments from end-to-end (front-end to database as well as data ingestion pipelines)
- You have production experience managing a Kubernetes cluster ideally leveraging terraform
- You have worked with monitoring tools and understand best practices for alerting
- You have a strong understanding and previous experience with cloud infrastructure such as GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.
- You have a bias toward action
- You demonstrate a desire for readable, testable, and performant code
- You have empathy for your peers and our customers
Perks & Benefits:
- 100% remote first culture, with an onsite option at our San Francisco or Denver offices
- Prioritizes health & wellness with flexible PTO, monthly mental health day, generous leave policies and company-sponsored Modern Health coaching and therapy sessions
- Competitive salary + equity
- 90% paid medical benefits for you and your dependents (medical, dental, vision)
- 401k match & access to a financial planner
- $1,000 professional development stipend
- One-time $350 remote workspace allowance
- $250 monthly co-working space stipend
- 16 weeks paid parental leave & flexible return to work
- Recognized as Time 100’s most influential companies of 2022 & a Great Place to Work
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Divvy Homes is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We are woman-led and have focused on diversity, equity and inclusion from the moment Divvy was founded. Divvy has 6 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to celebrate not only our cultural uniqueness, but also to create a sense of belonging. We care deeply about hiring a workforce that is diverse not only in gender and ethnicity, but in experience, thought, and geography. We enthusiastically encourage individuals from a variety of lived experiences to reach out and learn more about our roles at Divvy.
