Senior Staff Data Engineer (R13274)
ABOUT OPORTUN
Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a mission-driven fintech that puts its 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 $19.7 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:
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Technical Leadership
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on data architecture, ETL,and database management.
- Ability to identify opportunities for optimisation and efficiency gains within the data pipelines/architecture/infrastructure.
- Work like a technical thought leader of the team and provide necessary guidance and mentorship to senior team members.
- Ability to take ownership of critical projects and initiatives, providing project leadership, and ensuring successful delivery through effective project management and communication.
- Involve in rigorous code and data quality reviews, offering valuable feedback to maintain best practices, quality, performance, and maintainability.
- Lead the team in designing and building complex end-to-end data pipelines.
- Proficiency in programming languages like Python/PySpark and Java /Scala
- Expertise in big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
- In-depth knowledge of SQL and experience with various database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL databases).
- Guide the team in orchestrating and designing job schedules using the CICD tools like Jenkins and Airflow.
- Ability to work in an Agile environment (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, etc)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their data services
- (e.g., AWS Redshift, S3, Azure SQL Data Warehouse).
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Strong experience with Databricks and various capabilities that databricks provides like Workflows, Compute, Pipelines etc.
- Strong experience with working on search index like ElasticSearch or Apache Lucene or something similar.
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