Senior Staff Software Engineer

ABOUT OPORTUN

Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a mission-driven fintech that puts its 2.0 million members' financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing, savings, and budgeting capabilities, Oportun empowers members with the confidence to build a better financial future. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $16.6 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2.4 billion in interest and fees, and helped its members save an average of more than $1,800 annually. Oportun has been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) since 2009.

WORKING AT OPORTUN

Working at Oportun means enjoying a differentiated experience of being part of a team that fosters a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where we all feel a sense of belonging and are encouraged to share our perspectives. This inclusive culture is directly connected to our organization's performance and ability to fulfill our mission of delivering affordable credit to those left out of the financial mainstream. We celebrate and nurture our inclusive culture through our employee resource groups.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The mission for the Engineering Ecosystem Org at Oportun is to be the force-multiplicative Org that empowers engineers to deliver member value with high-speed and high-quality. Teams in this Org play a vital role in designing, developing, and maintaining cutting-edge software solutions that power our mission and advance our business. We strike a balance between leveraging leading tools and developing in-house solutions to create member experiences that empower their financial independence. As a Senior Staff Engineer at Oportun, you will lead the transformation of the Engineering Platform, Systems and Processes, and be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale, high-throughput foundational services and libraries. 

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to help re-architect, re-design, build, and maintain our platform and associated services. This role will have significant impact on the success of Oportun's new platform we are building to help serve as a force-multiplier to the company. We are seeking a highly experienced software engineer who has built or continues to build large scale fault-tolerant distributed systems. The ideal candidate for this role will have significant experience in re-architecting a company's entire platform and services.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. You help define, standardize, implement, and evangelize approaches to software development in a Continuous Delivery, that raise the bar across the enterprise.
2. You help redesign the platform architecture for the enterprise to make our engineers more productive and our solutions more robust.
3. You are a high-throughput developer that Staff, Senior and Junior developers look up to.
4. You are called upon to mediate discussions and build alignment on technical approach across teams.
5. Your delivery of architecture sets the standard for the enterprise with a high focus on engineering excellence, innovation, continuous delivery.
6. You lead incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.
7. You drive operational excellence across the org and propose scalable ways to continually improve OE.
8. You break through surface-level remediation for on-call issues and identify high-impact initiatives to reduce on-call escalation across the organization.
9. You provide technical and organizational guidance while continuing to be deeply engaged in technical delivery of cloud platform solutions and capabilities.
10. You enable collaborations to happen through your vision and enable collaboration between teams in the technology organization through the platform architecture you implement.
11. You can recognize opportunities where Oportun is under or overinvested in cloud platform capabilities and can build a strong case on why Oportun needs to focus on these areas.
12. Alongside your peers you will design and drive the platform strategy across the CTO organization.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Requires a minimum 13 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or a master's degree with an equivalent combination of education and experience.
2. Mastery (10+ years) in software development with a strong focus on backend development and platform architecture.
3. Expertise in Java, C#, C++, or similar.
4. Expertise in software design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
5. Expertise in cloud platforms, stability, scalability and security.
6. Expertise (5+ years) in designing, building, deploying, and maintaining container-based applications.
7. Expertise (5+ years) in working with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
8. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical and business problems.
9. Strong experience (3+ years) in Continuous Delivery and 0 downtime deployment capabilities.
10. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
11. Proven ability to lead and mentor multiple teams across multiple complex business problems.
12. Knowledge of and a keen eye towards secure development practices and security.

PREFERRED SKILLS

1. Financial services or fintech industry experience is a strong advantage.

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