Principal Software Engineer

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Oportun

πŸ“Remote - India

Summary

Join Oportun as a senior software leader, conceptualizing, designing, developing, testing, and deploying complex software applications. You will set coding best practices, establish policies and procedures, and create metrics to drive code quality. Lead platform and product development, scaling to customer needs, and oversee system architecture for critical areas. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with senior leaders. This role requires a minimum of 15 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree or a Master's degree with equivalent experience.

Requirements

  • 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 track record of delivering sophisticated software solutions and leading complex technical projects
  • Expertise in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Python, C++, or similar
  • Complete Mastery over data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
  • Proficiency in working with relational databases and SQL
  • Strong grasp of version control systems, such as Git
  • Proven track record designing and building scalable and reliable distributed systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Proven ability to mentor and lead a technical organization, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment
  • Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with a passion for tackling complex technical challenges
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities, with a track record of effectively collaborating in a team-oriented environment

Responsibilities

  • Lead the conceptualization, design, development, testing, and deployment of complex software applications
  • Establish, influence, and ensure policies and procedures for developing extensible, reusable, and maintainable code
  • Identify and address coding issues
  • Create and apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
  • Apply appropriate coding patterns and best practices
  • Lead platform & product development and scaling to customer requirements
  • Apply best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations
  • Hold accountability for products that do not meet expectations
  • Oversee overall system architecture for critically important and high-impact spaces
  • Hold accountability for incorporating critical product strategy components into the system architecture
  • Create a strategic roadmap for the system architecture
  • Establish and/or maintain processes to measure and ensure system architecture is effective, durable, and meets the current and future needs of the service or product
  • Be actively engaged in experimentation for highly complex, ambiguous, or otherwise valuable technological spaces
  • Provide technical leadership for problem solving and/or efficiently building software developer tools
  • Mentor engineers across all levels
  • Collaborate and coordinate with other senior leaders to align on policies and procedures for safe and effective dependency adoption
  • Negotiate and align on cross-function dependency roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated experience in web application development, RESTful APIs, and frontend technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is advantageous

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