Remote Sr. Engineering Manager

Summary

The job is for a Senior Engineering Manager at Oportun, a digital banking platform that provides affordable credit to underserved communities. The role involves aligning on software development technology vision, recruiting and managing teams, driving technical roadmap, and ensuring the quality of solutions developed by the teams.

Requirements

• 12+ years of overall experience in software engineering with Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 5+ years of recent management experience in data engineering, managing more than one team during that time with 10+ team members
• 5+ years of individual contributor engineering experience building products with a modern tech stacks, preferably in data engineering. Good knowledge of data processing methodologies, cloud solutions and services for handling batch and stream data, warehousing and analytics

Responsibilities

• Recruit and strong product engineers and future technical leaders
• Build a strong, high performing teams by driving forming a strong team culture of safety, accountability, and empathy and effectively driving team execution
• Collaborate with partners in Product, Design, and other engineering leads to drive team vision and strategy - product roadmap, execution and resource plan, and setting priorities
• Level up the technical skills in data engineering for your team by reviewing pull requests and technical specs, empowering and leveraging your tech lead, and being able and willing to get your hands dirty and help your team debug issues and ship code when needed
• Drive strong data engineering practices around product development execution, operational excellence in observability, quality, reliability, and developer efficiency
• Effectively communicate and build alignment up, down and sideways across the organization
• Be a champion for Diversity and Inclusion by sourcing, hiring, and advocating for a diverse group of engineers

Benefits

Competitive compensation package, including benefits and potential for performance-based incentives