Job description

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

Oportun is on a mission to deploy high availability, fault tolerant, scalable, and efficient applications in a Continuous-delivery mindset in a container-based environment. We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to help design, build, and maintain foundational services that are built on top of it. This role will have significant impact on the success of Oportun’s continuous high speed value delivery, 0 downtime, shift-left, and high-availability strategy. We are seeking an experienced software engineer who has built or continues to build foundational services and infrastructure.

The ideal candidate for this role will have significant experience in building foundational services, product development, a strong security mindset, and a passion for reducing inefficiencies.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will help define, refine, standardize, implement, and evangelize approaches to software development in a Continuous Delivery zero-downtime environment that raises the bar across the enterprise.
You will build platform architecture for the enterprise to make our engineers more productive and our solutions more robust.
You will rearchitect foundational services that will help become force multipliers for the company.
You will be called upon to mediate discussions and build alignment on technical approach across teams
Your delivery of architecture sets the standard for the enterprise with a high focus on force multiplication, engineering excellence, innovation, continuous delivery, and a shift-left mentality.
You lead incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.
You drive operational excellence across the org and propose scalable ways to continually improve OE
You break through surface-level remediation for on-call issues and identify high-impact initiatives to reduce on-call escalation across the organization
You provide technical and organizational guidance while continuing to be deeply engaged in technical delivery of platform services and infrastructure
You enable collaboration between teams in the technology organization through the platform services and infrastructure you design and implement.
You can recognize opportunities where Oportun is under or overinvested in platform capabilities and can build a strong case
on why Oportun needs to focus on these areas
Alongside your peers you will design and drive the platform services and infrastructure strategy across the CTO organization.

REQUIREMENTS

Typically requires a minimum 15 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or a master’s degree with an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Proven experience (13+ years) in software development with a strong focus on platform services.
Exemplary distributed system design skills.
Proven ability to take on huge re-architectures and delivering successfully
Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, or similar.
Mastery of software design principles, data structures, and algorithms
Expertise in infrastructure stability, and scalability
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical and business problems.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
Proven ability to lead and mentor multiple teams across multiple complex business problems
Financial services or fintech industry experience is a strong advantage.
Strong experience (3+ years) in Continuous Delivery and zero-downtime deployment capabilities
Knowledge of and a keen eye towards secure development practices and platform security
Expertise (5+ years) in designing, building, deploying, and maintaining container-based applications
Expertise (5+ years) in designing and building force multiplicative platform services that scale well.
Must have some experience (2+ years) in Kubernetes, should have experience in tools like StrongDM, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub.

PREFERRED SKILLS

Experience or Knowledge in financial services
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants for employment opportunities without regard to race, age, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other category protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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Senior Staff Software Engineer