Staff Software Engineer (R13670)

Oportun is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to re-architect, re-design, build, and maintain its platform and associated services. This role is crucial for the success of Oportun's new platform, acting as a force-multiplier for the company. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in building large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems and re-architecting entire company platforms and services, driving engineering excellence and continuous delivery.

Must Have

• Define, standardize, implement, and evangelize software development approaches in Continuous Delivery.
• Redesign platform architecture for enterprise productivity and solution robustness.
• Be a high-throughput developer and technical role model.
• Mediate discussions and build alignment on technical approaches across teams.
• Deliver architecture setting standards for engineering excellence and innovation.
• Lead incorporation of continuous feedback loops for customer value and usage.
• Drive operational excellence and propose scalable OE improvements.
• Identify high-impact initiatives to reduce on-call escalation.
• Provide technical guidance while deeply engaged in platform solution delivery.
• Enable collaboration through vision and platform architecture.
• Minimum 10 years of related software development experience.
• Mastery in backend development and platform architecture.
• Expertise in Java, C#, C++, or similar languages.
• Expertise in software design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
• Expertise in platforms, stability, scalability, and security.
• 5+ years in designing, building, deploying, and maintaining container-based applications.
• 8+ years working with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• 2+ years in Continuous Delivery and 0 downtime deployment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor multiple teams.
• Knowledge of secure development practices and security.

Good to Have

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

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

We are looking for a 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

• You help define, standardize, implement, and evangelize approaches to software development in a Continuous Delivery, that raise the bar across the enterprise.
• You help redesign the platform architecture for the enterprise to make our engineers more productive and our solutions more robust.
• You are a high-throughput developer that Senior and Junior developers look up to.
• You are called upon to mediate discussions and build alignment on technical approach across teams.
• Your delivery of architecture sets the standard for the org with a high focus on engineering excellence, innovation, continuous delivery.
• 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 team 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 guidance while continuing to be deeply engaged in technical delivery of platform solutions and capabilities.
• You enable collaborations to happen through your vision and enable collaboration between teams in the technology organization through the platform architecture you implement.

REQUIREMENTS

• Requires a minimum 10 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or a master's degree with an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Mastery (10+ years) in software development with a strong focus on backend development and platform architecture.
• Expertise in Java, C#, C++, or similar.
• Expertise in software design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
• Expertise in platforms, stability, scalability and security.
• Expertise (5+ years) in designing, building, deploying, and maintaining container-based applications.
• Expertise (8+ years) in working with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical and business problems.
• Strong experience (2+ years) in Continuous Delivery and 0 downtime deployment capabilities.
• 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.
• Knowledge of and a keen eye towards secure development practices and security.

PREFERRED SKILLS

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

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