Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Oportun as a Staff Engineer and lead the transformation of our Engineering Platform, Systems, and Processes. You will design, develop, and maintain large-scale, high-throughput foundational services and libraries. This impactful role requires significant experience in re-architecting company platforms and services. You'll define, implement, and promote software development approaches within a Continuous Delivery framework, enhancing engineer productivity and solution robustness. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in backend development, platform architecture, and cloud platforms, along with strong leadership and communication skills. This position offers the opportunity to shape Oportun's new platform and contribute to its continued success.

Requirements

• Requires a minimum 10 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or a master's degree with an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Mastery (10+ years) in software development with a strong focus on backend development and platform architecture
• Expertise in Java, C#, C++, or similar
• Expertise in software design principles, data structures, and algorithms
• Expertise in cloud platforms, stability, scalability and security
• Expertise (5+ years) in designing, building, deploying, and maintaining container-based applications
• Expertise (8+ years) in working with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical and business problems
• Strong experience (2+ years) in Continuous Delivery and 0 downtime deployment capabilities
• 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
• Knowledge of and a keen eye towards secure development practices and security

Responsibilities

• Help define, standardize, implement, and evangelize approaches to software development in a Continuous Delivery, that raise the bar across the enterprise
• Help redesign the platform architecture for the enterprise to make our engineers more productive and our solutions more robust
• Be a high-throughput developer that Senior and Junior developers look up to
• Mediate discussions and build alignment on technical approach across teams
• Deliver architecture that sets the standard for the org with a high focus on engineering excellence, innovation, continuous delivery
• Lead incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value
• Drive operational excellence across the team 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 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

Preferred Qualifications

Financial services or fintech industry experience is a strong advantage