Joining HomeFree is much like joining a revolution in progress, so before you even read further please ask yourself......”Am I prepared?” Our Mission is to provide a free platform for Home Buyers and Sellers to enjoy a safe, free property transfer. It’s simple, yet audacious as well. The people who join our team need to embody the unique opportunity presented. Rethinking how we perform the most mundane tasks have changed thanks to the web.....it’s time we do the same for Buyers and Sellers of property.

HomeFree is based in the rolling hills of Yorba Linda, California known as the “Land of Gracious Living.” The small town feel within a sprawling community is very much the presence in our culture. Learning from each others’ unique perspective in life is tantamount to creating a vibe which is not only fun to work with, but encourages risks with new ideas and contributions to our goal.

Our compensation is competitive, and we offer a tremendous opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the Real Estate Ownership Revolution or REOR as we refer to our goal internally. Running towards the “REOR” to conquer what is currently a dismal situation, those that join us need to be quick on their feet and ready for each new day’s challenges.

Due to the nature of our unique challenge, we allow each “Wallace” or HomeFree representative to work at their peak. This means, if you prefer to work remotely, feel free, want to work at 3:00 AM (who knows it may be your favorite show......isn’t MASH reruns on then?) be our guest. As long as the necessary performance is rendered enjoy the freedom to pursue intellectual stimulation whenever comfortable.

This finally lends to some further questions:

1. Dress code? Every day is casual day, Friday is dress up day should you choose.....winner gets to pick what the entire office eats for lunch on Monday.
2. Can I bring my dog? As long as Puddles gets along with people bring her.
3. Can I bring my cat? Whoa...don’t push it.....we have to have some lines in the sand!
4. How can I prove worthy of an interview? Follow the link to the job openings we currently have. Know that we LOVE creativity and the more creative you are the faster your resume shoots to the top of the email pile! Have an idea on how we can improve....show us! (Our pride went out the window as soon as we realized we were in the REOR!
5. How cool is HomeFree.org? We think it is cooler than an Ice Cream Sunday at the Arctic. Think about it, HomeFree is helping Buyers and Sellers, and in turn they are all helping some amazing Non Profit Organizations change the world. HomeFree is committed to “tithing” 10% of gross profits to these amazing Organizations who are dedicated to improving life across the Planet. How fun is it to go to work knowing your contributions are helping on so many different “fronts” in this World!

So do you have what it takes to be a “Wallace?” Do you have the intestinal fortitude to join a team bent on improving America, getting us out of this current crisis, and freeing the oppressed? Only you can answer the question do you desire FREEEEEEDOM!

Backend Engineer

We love helping Home Buyers and Sellers in this changing world economy. Our team is well aware of the challenges in creating a new market, for this reason we need talented people to join us. Our goal is to free the oppressed in the housing market, we can hardly wait to add to our incredible team.

Responsibilities:

1. Create and own a variety of mission-critical and data-intensive problems.
2. Fraud detection and response: detect fraudulent activity in real-time and respond appropriately.
3. Price recommendations: help users understand what their property is worth; build an automatic pricing system based on millions of listings.
4. Data quality: create algorithms to automatically improve the quality of our listings.
5. Translate business needs into well-defined and scoped functionality.
6. Implement new functionality, improve existing infrastructure.

Requirements:

1. Experience using a dynamic programming language in a production environment (or personal projects)
2. Personal projects that show and aptitude for engineering
3. Ability to work in areas outside of their usual comfort zone and get things done quickly

Desirable:

1. Experience using PHP in a production environment
2. Experience using HTML/CSS/Javascript/AJAX in a production environment
3. Experience building and administering systems related to fraud, payments, API and recommendation engines

Benefits:

1. Stock options
2. Competitive salaries
3. Vacation days & time off
4. Medical, dental, & vision insurance
5. Life & disability coverage
6. Apple equipment

iOS Engineer

We’re looking for product aware engineers who are thoughtful, responsible and passionate builders who appreciate user experience.  We’re looking for someone who is well versed in iOS development, but also has a strong understanding of good UX, and isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty in backend code.

Responsibilities:

1. Distill the travel experience for both our guests and our hosts into something effortless, responsive and accessible.
2. Implement flows and mockups as provided by the UX and design teams, while intelligently and creatively “filling in the gaps” not necessarily covered by rough prototypes.
3. Analyze usage patterns, funnels and economic metrics to produce the perfect product for all of our users.

Requirements:

1. Experience shipping one or more Objective-C native iOS apps, ideally currently available on the App Store
2. Strong CS fundamentals gained through Bachelor’s degree in CS, Math or related discipline or equivalent industry experience
3. Personal projects that show an aptitude for engineering and product sense
4. Ability to work in areas outside of their usual comfort zone and get things done quickly

Desirable:

1. Experience using Ruby-on-Rails in a production environment
2. Experience scaling high traffic websites (architecture/database/memcache/CDN)
3. Experience with server administration and Amazon Web Services (EC2/S3)

Benefits:

1. Stock options
2. Competitive salaries
3. Vacation days & time off
4. Medical, dental, & vision insurance
5. Life & disability coverage
6. Apple equipment

Frontend Engineer

We love helping Home Buyers and Sellers in this changing world economy. Our team is well aware of the challenges in creating a new market, for this reason we need talented people to join us. Our goal is to free the oppressed in the housing market, we can hardly wait to add to our incredible team.

Responsibilities:

1. Implement public facing pages on HomeFree.com
2. Help make UI and UX decisions
3. Prototype experimental features
4. Build reusable CSS/JS frameworks to simplify development
5. Participation in general engineering needs of the company

Requirements:

1. Exceptional proficiency using HTML/CSS/Javascript/AJAX in a production environment
2. Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
3. Strong CS fundamentals gained through Bachelor’s degree in CS, HCI or related discipline or equivalent industry experience
4. Personal projects that show and aptitude for front-end engineering and product design sense
5. Ability to work in areas outside of their usual comfort zone and get things done quickly

Desirable:

1. Experience using an MVC framework in a production environment particularly with Ruby-on-Rails
2. Experience using MySQL in a production environment

Benefits:

1. Stock options
2. Competitive salaries
3. Vacation days & time off
4. Medical, dental, & vision insurance
5. Life & disability coverage
6. Apple equipment

Mobile Engineer

We love helping Home Buyers and Sellers in this changing world economy. Our team is well aware of the challenges in creating a new market, for this reason we need talented people to join us. Our goal is to free the oppressed in the housing market, we can hardly wait to add to our incredible team.

Responsibilities:

1. Distill the travel experience for both our guests and our hosts into something effortless, responsive and accessible.
2. Implement flows and mockups as provided by the UX and design teams, while intelligently and creatively “filling in the gaps” not necessarily covered by rough prototypes.
3. Analyze usage patterns, funnels and economic metrics to produce the perfect product for all of our users.

Requirements:

1. Proven experience in building products for the mobile ecosystem
2. Strong CS fundamentals gained through Bachelor’s degree in CS, Math or related discipline or equivalent industry experience
3. Personal projects that show an aptitude for engineering and product sense
4. Ability to work in areas outside of their usual comfort zone and get things done quickly

Desirable:

1. Experience shipping one or more native Android apps, ideally currently available on the Android Market
2. Experience using a dynamic programming language in a production environment (or personal projects)
3. Experience using Ruby-on-Rails in a production environment
4. Experience scaling high traffic websites (architecture/database/memcache/CDN)
5. Experience with server administration and Amazon Web Services (EC2/S3)

Benefits:

1. Stock options
2. Competitive salaries
3. Vacation days & time off
4. Medical, dental, & vision insurance
5. Life & disability coverage
6. Apple equipment

Search Engineer

We love helping Home Buyers and Sellers in this changing world economy. Our team is well aware of the challenges in creating a new market, for this reason we need talented people to join us. Our goal is to free the oppressed in the housing market, we can hardly wait to add to our incredible team.

Responsibilities:

1. Architect and build a new search infrastructure
2. Provide personalized search results
3. Create adaptive sorting algorithms, based on conversions and clickthroughs

Requirements:

1. Experience working with large, custom search systems
2. Lucene expert

Benefits:

1. Stock options
2. Competitive salaries
3. Vacation days & time off
4. Medical, dental, & vision insurance
5. Life & disability coverage
6. Apple equipment

Product Engineer

We love helping Home Buyers and Sellers in this changing world economy. Our team is well aware of the challenges in creating a new market, for this reason we need talented people to join us. Our goal is to free the oppressed in the housing market, we can hardly wait to add to our incredible team.

Responsibilities:

1. Translate high-level customer/business needs into well-defined and scoped functionality exercising sound product sensibilities
2. Implement new functionality, improve existing infrastructure

Requirements:

1. Experience using a dynamic programming language in a production environment (or personal projects)
2. Strong CS fundamentals gained through Bachelor’s degree in CS, Math or related discipline or equivalent industry experience
3. Personal projects that show an aptitude for engineering and product sense
4. Ability to work in areas outside of their usual comfort zone and get things done quickly

Desirable:

1. Experience using Ruby-on-Rails in a production environment
2. Experience using HTML/CSS/Javascript/AJAX in a production environment
3. Experience scaling high traffic websites (architecture/database/memcache/CDN)
4. Experience with server administration and Amazon Web Services (EC2/S3)

Benefits:

1. Stock options
2. Competitive salaries
3. Vacation days & time off
4. Medical, dental, & vision insurance
5. Life & disability coverage
6. Apple equipment

UI Designer

We love helping Home Buyers and Sellers in this changing world economy. Our team is well aware of the challenges in creating a new market, for this reason we need talented people to join us. Our goal is to free the oppressed in the housing market, we can hardly wait to add to our incredible team.

Responsibilities:

1. Concept and implement the visual language of HomeFree.com
2. Develop pixel perfect Photoshop comps
3. Create and advance site-wide style guides
4. Storyboard/prototype UX experiences
5. Present at weekly product meetings

Requirements:

1. A diverse portfolio that exhibits excellent use of typography, color, imagery, and graphic elements
2. Knowledge of front end markup: HTML/CSS/JQuery/other
3. Strong sketching skills
4. Image compression best practices
5. Full knowledge of Adobe CS
6. Information design skills
7. You've unpackaged at least one Apple product
8. BFA/MFA or equivalent industry experience

Bonus Skills:

1. Experience designing for mobile devices
2. Icon design
3. Ability to measure pixels by eye
4. Experience in user testing
5. You know the first names of who designed this chair
6. Your favorite color is in Pantone

Benefits:

1. Stock options
2. Competitive salaries
3. Vacation days & time off
4. Medical, dental, & vision insurance
5. Life & disability coverage
6. Apple equipment

We love helping Home Buyers and Sellers in this changing world economy. Our team is well aware of the challenges in creating a new market, for this reason we need talented people to join us. Our goal is to free the oppressed in the housing market, we can hardly wait to add to our incredible team.

Responsibilities:

1. Respond professionally to urgent inbound phone calls.
2. Being a first point of contact to handle and resolve customer complaints.
3. Identify and escalate priority issues.
4. Research required information using available resources.
5. Arbitrating in situations between users.
6. Follow up customer calls where necessary.
7. Troubleshoot problems and provide information.
8. Monitor and control numerous concurrent tasks in tandem.

Requirements:

1. Excellent time management, project management and organizational skills.
2. Patience, empathy, and a unique ability to manage stress.
3. Exceptional listening skills and attention to detail.
4. Previous call center experience.
5. Excellent verbal and written skills.
6. Naturally compassionate and caring.
7. Efficient keyboard skills.
8. Resiliency with mediation skills.
9. Able to work under pressure and adapt to situations quickly.
10. Good judgment and initiative.
11. Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
12. Technologically sophisticated.
13. Detail and service oriented individual.

Bonus Skills:

1. Customer Service experience.
2. Bilingual / Multilingual.
3. Knowledge of and experience with measuring and improving customer satisfaction and loyalty across broad functional areas and diverse geographies.

Director of Marketing

We love helping Home Buyers and Sellers in this changing world economy. Our team is well aware of the challenges in creating a new market, for this reason we need talented people to join us. Our goal is to free the oppressed in the housing market, we can hardly wait to add to our incredible team.

Responsibilities:

HomeFree.com’s Director of Marketing will be part of a highly-motivated management team that is rapidly expanding the company in the US and internationally. They will report to the executive management team and be supported by product marketing, email marketing and a marketing coordinator. The role will be responsible for developing tactical and highly measurable marketing plans for product advancements, local and regional customer acquisition strategies in Top 100 markets, advertising strategies, email marketing and creative promotions, and will manage overall event strategy for company.
The Director will partner closely with Management to develop and execute go-to-market strategy, business plans, integrated marketing campaigns, and budgets.

What We're Looking For:

1. Bachelors degree in Marketing, Communications, Business or related area of study; MBA or other advanced degree in related area of study is desirable
2. 10-12+ years marketing experience with consumer or consumer Internet companies with leadership experience
3. Expertise in marketing communications, and strong knowledge base of product marketing/management.
4. In-depth knowledge of marketing principles and practices
5. Experience within medium and large organizations and marketing departments
6. Expertise in developing and executing creative cross-marketing programs
7. Previous experience attracting and motivating talent to build and manage successful team
8. Excellent leadership qualities and the ability to manage across an organization
9. Some international marketing experience preferred
10. Experience developing consumer focused promotions and contests
11. Knowledge of online advertising and experience running campaigns
12. Strong and creative writing skills
13. Excellent time management, interpersonal, communications, decision making, presentation and organization skills.

Visual Designer

HomeFree seeks a visual designer to advance our communication design. The ideal candidate has a BFA or MFA, and has 2+ years of experience. You'll be entrusted with the HomeFree brand, and encouraged to push our visual messaging. An online portfolio is required to apply.

Responsibilities:

1. Create a graphic system for the HomeFree brand
2. Concept/design our email campaigns
3. Design/create new site graphics
4. Improve UI elements
5. Design and oversee production of offline print initiatives 
6. Work well in a studio-like environment, cross-collaborting with each department

Requirements:

1. Excellent use of typography
2. Good sense of color 
3. Fast in Photoshop/Illustrator
4. BFA/MFA or equivalent industry experience

Benefits:

1. Stock options
2. Competitive salaries
3. Vacation days & time off
4. Medical, dental, & vision insurance
5. Life & disability coverage
6. Apple equipment