Senior Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Oportun, a mission-driven fintech company, as a highly skilled software engineer. You will lead the end-to-end delivery of complex software applications, ensuring adherence to best practices and high-quality standards. This role requires extensive experience in web application development, specifically with Angular, and a strong understanding of UI/UX principles. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive technical decision-making, and mentor senior team members. The ideal candidate possesses exceptional problem-solving skills and excellent communication abilities. Oportun offers a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or a Master's degree with an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with one or more programming languages like Java, Python or C++ with a good understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
• Proven track record of delivering sophisticated software solutions with high quality, as UI development engineer with a strong focus on Angular
• Extensive proficiency in web application development, RESTful APIs, and frontend technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript)
• Solid experience with Node, npm, and Node JS
• Experience with responsive web design and mobile-first development
• Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices
• Rich experience in local storage/global storage/cookies handling
• Experience in Internal/external/cross-domain UI/back end application integration
• Knowledge in Security aspects including Authentication and Authorization
• Solid grasp of version control systems, such as Git
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with a passion for tackling complex technical and business problems/challenges
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, with a track record of effectively collaborating in a team-oriented environment

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex software applications, ensuring adherence to best practices and high overall quality standards
• Create frameworks and abstractions that lessen the workload of other engineers
• Document and create tutorials enabling other teams to leverage your work independently
• Identify and resolve improvements in test coverage for end-to-end business flows across multiple systems (and teams)
• Introduce new tools, techniques, and coding patterns to other engineers, some of which may be developed by yourself, and drive this change to other teams
• Drive technical decision-making, contribute to, and sometimes lead, architectural discussions, and propose innovative solutions to address complex technical and/or systemic architectural challenges
• Collaborate across teams and build systems to address architectural gaps
• Take ownership of critical projects and initiatives, providing project leadership, and ensuring successful delivery through effective project management and communication
• Engage with stakeholders across the group, understanding their needs and working through the complexity and conflicting goals
• Provide a clear and concise explanation of business strategy, technical concepts, designs or implementation to a non-technical audience
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to gather and translate business requirements into efficient and scalable software solutions
• Lead cross-team efforts that deliver meaningful results across engineering, product, and/or design
• Work through technical, organizational and scheduling complexity to align teams and deliver results in a positive way for the people and teams involved
• Build trust and speed at scale into our organization
• Serve as the technical thought leader of the team, and provide necessary guidance and mentorship to senior team members whenever required
• Play the key technical counterpart to an engineering manager with a larger team; provide effective feedback to engineering managers at all levels to identify and help address gaps in their teams
• Successfully advocate for technologies and processes that make multiple teams more efficient
• Conduct rigorous code reviews, offering valuable feedback to maintain code quality, performance, and maintainability
• Continuously identify opportunities for process improvements and efficiency gains within the software development lifecycle
• Stay informed about emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices, and proactively introduce relevant advancements to enhance our products and services
• Design and implement complex user interfaces with Angular, HTML, CSS, Java Script and TypeScript
• Integrate user interfaces with internal and external applications, UI/back-end application with appropriate security measures
• Ensure cross-browser, cross-platform compatibility
• Quickly learn new systems/requirements, and create POCs and develop code
• Create technical documentation for POCs/development and write automation/integration test cases with WebdriverIO and Cypress

Preferred Qualifications

• Implementation knowledge on Authorization and Authentication
• Knowledge on Okta iDP and integration with Okta or any other iDP form UI