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.

The Staff Software Engineer role offers a unique opportunity to combine your technical expertise with strategic thinking, guiding the team in making architectural decisions, mentoring senior engineers, and actively contributing to the evolution of our technology stack.  This role is the SME and “go-to” person in the team, and the individual works well under pressure, responds with urgency and operates with a high degree of autonomy, accountability, and maturity. As a Staff Software engineer, you are the domain expert in multiple areas, and can provide regular insight to product and design leads of all levels that are working within these areas. You can identify, tackle and deliver on strategically important problems for the group whether it is Product, Platform, or Infrastructure.

This role affords opportunities to lead and contribute to design and implementation of multiple large projects or lead a large org or company-wide objective, including the possibility of (technically) leading multiple small(er) teams, or a large team. Overall, this role has all the ingredients for the incumbent to command and hold respect as an expert and to develop a track-record of deep and/or broad impact to a product or technology area.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Architecture Design:

•  Define and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance software architectures.
•  Develop architectural blueprints and technical roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
•  Ensure best practices, design patterns, and architectural principles are followed.
•  Technology Strategy:
•  Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, tools, and frameworks.
•  Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.
•  Ensure technology alignment with enterprise standards and business goals.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• Work closely with development teams, product managers, and stakeholders to translate requirements    into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines, scalability, and performance tuning.

 Governance & Compliance:

• Define and enforce architectural governance, coding standards, and security policies.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure compliance with architectural guidelines.
• Identify potential risks and create mitigation plans.

Performance Optimization:

• Analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks to improve efficiency.
• Ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and maintainable.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 11+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or a Master's degree with an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proven track record of delivering sophisticated software solutions in a leadership capacity with high quality.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with a passion for tackling complex technical and business problems. challenges.
• Mastery over data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Demonstrated experience in web application development, Java, Micro services, Spring boot, Spring Framework, RESTful APIs, Hibernate
• Experience in end to end technical design for mobile apps, preferably React Native - Java combination
• Experience in Front-End development React JS / Angular.
• Ability to quickly learn new systems/requirements and create POCs and develop code.
• Experience in relational databases like MySQL, MariaDB and SQL
• Solid grasp of version control systems, such as Git.
• Knowledge in OAuth2.
• Proven ability to mentor and lead a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, with a track record of effectively collaborating in a team-oriented environment.
• Flair to identify improvisation areas and provide solutions with newer technologies

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS or Azure, is highly desirable.
• Experience in working on Authentication and Authorization with any Identity Providers.
• Experience in automation with Web Driver IO.
• Knowledge/experience in working with DevOps/CICD.

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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