Senior Finance Data Engineer

About the Team:

As a Senior Finance Data Engineer at Opendoor, you will join the Finance team reporting to the President of Opendoor with a mandate to 10x our data leverage across Finance. This is a high-impact IC role at the intersection of data architecture, AI engineering, and financial systems.

Opendoor has adopted a "Default to AI" philosophy—if AI can handle it, AI should handle it. We're not theorizing about AI transformation; we're shipping it. You are a builder with a product mindset who will help transform Finance from a service function into a product—one that delivers real-time insights, automated workflows, and self-service capabilities to every team at Opendoor. You understand how LLMs work, you’ve built agents, and you understand how finance data can be leveraged and structured with these models. 

Build AI-Powered Finance Infrastructure

• Design and deploy AI agents that automate data fetching, analysis, reporting, and forecasting workflows

• Architect data pipelines connecting financial planning systems (Adaptive) to Snowflake and downstream applications

• Build semantic layers that enable non-technical finance team members to access data through natural language

Create Finance Tools & Products

• Develop internal tools that transform manual finance processes into automated, scalable products

• Build dashboards and self-service interfaces that eliminate analyst bottlenecks

• Create systems that enable managers to answer their own headcount, budget, and forecast questions without finance intervention 

Own Data Architecture for Finance

• Organize finance data for best-in-class LLM capabilities

• Design data models that support automated analysis, real-time querying, and AI agent interactions

• Establish data quality frameworks and governance for financial systems

Drive Automation at Scale

• Identify high-value automation opportunities across Finance (accruals, reporting, forecasting, variance analysis)

• Implement workflow automation using tools like Gumloop, Claude, and custom-built agents

• Measure and improve automation accuracy, reducing manual intervention over time

We're looking for teammates who have:

Technical Foundation

• 3+ years of experience building data systems in a finance, analytics, or data engineering role

• Advanced SQL proficiency with ability to design complex data models and optimize query performance

• Production experience with Python for data engineering, automation, and AI agent development

• Hands-on experience with modern data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar)

• Track record of building and deploying AI agents or LLM-powered applications in production environments

AI & Automation Expertise

• Deep understanding of LLM capabilities, limitations, and prompt engineering best practices

• Experience architecting semantic layers or natural language interfaces for data access

• Familiarity with AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar)

• Proven ability to identify high-ROI automation opportunities and implement end-to-end solutions

• Experience with workflow automation tools and API integrations

Data Architecture & Systems Design

• Strong data modeling skills with focus on enabling both human analysts and AI agents

• Experience designing data pipelines that connect planning systems (like Adaptive, Anaplan) to data warehouses

• Understanding of data governance, quality frameworks, and metadata management

• Ability to architect scalable systems that reduce analyst bottlenecks and enable self-service

Product & Business Mindset

• Builder mentality with ability to ship functional products, not just analyses

• Experience translating messy business problems into clean technical solutions

• Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to influence senior finance leadership

• Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with evolving requirements

• Systems thinking approach to understanding complex problems and their root causes

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in fintech, real estate tech, or high-velocity transaction businesses

• Background in financial planning & analysis (FP&A) or corporate finance

• Familiarity with finance-specific tools (Adaptive Insights, NetSuite, etc.)