Oportun is hiring a
Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Oportun's team and contribute to delivering affordable credit to those left out of the financial mainstream. As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain our cloud platform in a Shift-Left & Continuous-delivery mindset.

Requirements

• Typically requires a minimum 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or a Master's degree with an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Proven experience (10+ years) in software development with a strong focus on full-stack development and cloud platform technologies
• Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, or similar
• Mastery of software design principles, data structures, and algorithms
• Expertise in cloud platforms, cloud infrastructure management, stability, and scalability
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical and business problems
• 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
• Financial services or fintech industry experience is a strong advantage
• Expertise (5+ years) in cloud platform architecture, deployments, management, and maintenance – Specifically AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Expertise (5+ years) in IaC technologies like Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation
• Strong experience (3+ years) in Continuous Delivery and 0 downtime deployment capabilities
• Knowledge of and a keen eye towards secure development practices and platform security
• Expertise (5+ years) in designing, building, deploying, and maintaining container-based applications
• Must have experience (2+ years) in Kubernetes, should have experience in tools like Istio, StrongDM, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub

Responsibilities

• Help define, standardize, implement, and evangelize approaches to software development in a Continuous Delivery 0-downtime environment that raise the bar across the enterprise
• Build cloud platform architecture solutions for the enterprise to make our engineers more productive and our solutions more robust
• Mediate discussions and build alignment on technical approach across teams
• Your delivery of architecture sets the standard for the enterprise with a high focus on engineering excellence, innovation, continuous delivery, and a shift-left mentality
• Lead incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value
• Drive operational excellence across the org and propose scalable ways to continually improve OE
• Break through surface-level remediation for on-call issues and identify high-impact initiatives to reduce on-call escalation across the organization
• Provide technical and organizational guidance while continuing to be deeply engaged in technical delivery of cloud platform solutions and capabilities
• Enable collaborations to happen through your vision and
• Enable collaboration between teams in the technology organization through the platform architecture you implement
• Recognize opportunities where Oportun is under or overinvested in cloud platform capabilities and can build a strong case on why Oportun needs to focus on these areas
• Alongside your peers you will design and drive the cloud platform strategy across the CTO organization