Oportun is hiring a
Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join Oportun's Engineering team as a Data Engineer and contribute to designing, developing, and maintaining sophisticated software/data platforms. As a key member of the EDT team, you will be responsible for solving business problems with technical solutions, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of proven experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role
• Strong proficiency in programming languages like Python, PySpark or Scala
• Expertise in working with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL databases)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks) and their data services (e.g., AWS Redshift, S3, Azure SQL Data Warehouse)
• Versioning tools like bitbucket, github, and gitlab
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, data modeling, and data pipelines processes
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities
• Knowledge of FinTech (good to have)
• Familiarity or certification in Databricks is a plus

Responsibilities

• You collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to understand business requirements and translate them into efficient and scalable software solutions
• You design, develop, test, deploy, support, and maintain high-quality software applications using industry best practices and modern technologies. You own issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution/escalation
• You write clean and maintainable code that adheres to industry coding standards and contributes to the overall stability of our systems. You participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members to ensure code quality and promote knowledge sharing
• You proactively find and address technical debt, inefficient practices/tools and performance bottlenecks and bugs, continuously improving the reliability and performance of our software through building observability and other features to help trouble-shoot/triage issues
• You demonstrate proficient usage of tools, techniques, and architecture/coding patterns. You have demonstrated you are able to understand trade-offs of various architectural and design choices. Your solutions are focused on solving the needs of your customer
• You stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and proactively propose and implement innovative solutions to enhance our products and services through continuous evolution and refinement of current tools and applications