Senior Staff Software Engineer

🕒 July 9

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Oportun

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Insurance • Fintech

Oportun is a financial technology company that specializes in providing affordable personal loans and savings solutions. They are recognized as Bankrate's #1 app for saving money in 2024. Oportun offers personal loans ranging from $300 to $10,000 for various financial needs such as bills, repairs, and deposits, with quick funding and affordable payments. The company provides a unique app that helps users manage their loans and saves money intelligently. Oportun also focuses on financial education and offers tools like loan calculators and prequalification services, which do not impact credit scores. Although Oportun is not a bank, they ensure deposits are FDIC insured through partner banks.

📋 Description

• Provide senior technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, systems, and business domains. • Drive architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable software systems. • Lead complex cross-functional technical initiatives from discovery and design through delivery and production operation. • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Risk, Compliance, Operations, Customer Experience, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with business outcomes. • Evaluate existing systems and identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, performance, maintainability, observability, and developer productivity. • Design and guide implementation of backend services, APIs, integrations, platform capabilities, and distributed systems. • Influence technical strategy, roadmap planning, and prioritization across teams. • Establish and promote engineering best practices for architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, documentation, and operational excellence. • Serve as a technical mentor to engineers and technical leads, raising the bar for design quality, execution, and ownership. • Help teams make sound technical tradeoffs across speed, quality, scalability, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability. • Support modernization efforts, platform improvements, and integration strategies across legacy and modern systems. • Use AI-enabled engineering tools, automation, and productivity solutions to improve development workflows, operational efficiency, and team effectiveness. • Identify practical opportunities where AI-assisted tools or automation can improve customer experience, internal workflows, engineering productivity, or operational outcomes. • Collaborate on systems that may include customer communications, telephony, contact center workflows, servicing platforms, or enterprise integrations. • Participate in production support, incident review, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements for critical systems.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience. • Strong experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems. • Proven ability to provide technical leadership across multiple teams or complex domains. • Deep experience with backend services, APIs, data flows, integrations, and cloud-based architectures. • Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, or similar. • Strong understanding of system design, software architecture, scalability, reliability, observability, and operational excellence. • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. • Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases. • Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, logging, alerting, and production operations. • Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction without relying solely on authority. • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders. • Experience mentoring engineers and helping teams improve technical execution. • Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives to completion.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Professional development opportunities