Staff Software Engineer (R12929)

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to help re-architect, re-design, build, and maintain our platform and associated services. This role will have significant impact on the success of Oportun's new platform we are building to help serve as a force-multiplier to the company. We are seeking a highly experienced software engineer who has built or continues to build large scale fault-tolerant distributed systems. The ideal candidate for this role will have significant experience in re-architecting a company's entire platform and services. RESPONSIBILITIES You help define, standardize, implement, and evangelize approaches to software development in a Continuous Delivery, that raise the bar across the enterprise. You help redesign the platform architecture for the enterprise to make our engineers more productive and our solutions more robust. You are a high-throughput developer that Senior and Junior developers look up to. You are called upon to mediate discussions and build alignment on technical approach across teams. Your delivery of architecture sets the standard for the org with a high focus on engineering excellence, innovation, continuous delivery. You lead incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value. You drive operational excellence across the team and propose scalable ways to continually improve OE. You break through surface-level remediation for on-call issues and identify high-impact initiatives to reduce on-call escalation across the organization. You provide technical guidance while continuing to be deeply engaged in technical delivery of cloud platform solutions and capabilities. You enable collaborations to happen through your vision and enable collaboration between teams in the technology organization through the platform architecture you implement.

Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a mission-driven fintech that puts its 2.0 million members' financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing, savings, and budgeting capabilities, Oportun empowers members with the confidence to build a better financial future. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $16.6 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2.4 billion in interest and fees, and helped its members save an average of more than $1,800 annually. Oportun has been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) since 2009.