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Data Engineer, San Francisco, CA

HomeLight · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About HomeLight

Backed by GV, 500 Global and Menlo.

About the role

We are building our Data Engineering team to tackle HomeLight's diverse data challenges. This position is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who wants to own the development, optimization, and operation of our data pipeline, which collects, processes, and distributes data to a suite of HomeLight products and teams. You will provide mission-critical data to both our algorithms and internal users, refining our product and identifying new markets. Some projects you will work on:

What they're looking for

  • 2+ years of experience in data, software, or backend engineering roles
  • Experience applying LLMs and prompt engineering to real-world workflows
  • Strong proficiency in Python for building services, data pipelines, and backend systems
  • Experience designing, building, and operating service-oriented architectures and APIs
  • Solid understanding of data modeling, system design, and scalable architecture patterns
  • Hands-on experience with data pipelines and ETL workflows (Airflow or similar)
More about this role

We are on a mission to empower people to make smarter decisions during one of life’s most important moments: buying or selling their home. By analyzing 40 million+ real estate transactions from 2.5 million agents across the country, we are able to take an unbiased, data-driven approach to match our clients with top-performing real estate agents to meet each of their specific needs. Our algorithm and marketplace solutions guide our clients through every step of the home buying or selling experience. Join us and build our first Data Engineering team and the # destination for home sellers! Learn more about our engineering team!

We are building our Data Engineering team to tackle HomeLight's diverse data challenges. This position is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who wants to own the development, optimization, and operation of our data pipeline, which collects, processes, and distributes data to a suite of HomeLight products and teams. You will provide mission-critical data to both our algorithms and internal users, refining our product and identifying new markets. Some projects you will work on:

  • Optimize and execute on requests to pull, analyze, interpret, and visualize...

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