🌳🌳🌳Staff Software Engineer🌳🌳🌳

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.

Working at Oportun means enjoying a differentiated experience of being part of a team that fosters a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where we all feel a sense of belonging and are encouraged to share our perspectives. This inclusive culture is directly connected to our organization's performance and ability to fulfill our mission of delivering affordable credit to those left out of the financial mainstream. The Staff Software Engineer role offers a unique opportunity to combine your technical expertise with strategic thinking, guiding the team in making architectural decisions, mentoring senior engineers, and actively contributing to the evolution of our technology stack. As a Staff Software engineer, you are the domain expert in multiple areas , and can provide regular insight to product and design leads of all levels that are working within these areas. This role affords opportunities to lead and contribute to design and implementation of multiple large projects or lead a large org or company-wide objective, including the possibility of (technically) leading multiple small(er) teams, or a large team. Define and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance software architectures.
Collaborate with DevOps teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines, scalability, and performance tuning.
Define and enforce architectural governance, coding standards, and security policies.
Identify potential risks and create mitigation plans.
Performance Optimization:
Analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks to improve efficiency.
11+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or a Master's degree with an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Proven track record of delivering sophisticated software solutions in a leadership capacity with high quality.
• Experience in Java, SpringBoot development, preferably Kotlin
• Experience in Front-End development like Angular.
• Experience in relational databases like MySQL, MariaDB and SQL
• Experience in NoSQL databases like Mongo DB
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes (like EKS) for orchestration
• Experience working on cloud services like AWS
• Experience working with Gradle, writing 100% code coverage through unit and integration tests.
• Experience with working on APM tools for observability and alerting like Datadog/New Relic/Dynatrace/Splunk or something equivalent.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools that allow you to visualize and analyze data and coming up with metrics that would help make decisions to improve the system.
• Ability to make informed technical design decisions that consider long-term maintainability, scalability, and performance.
• Experience with user behavior analytics, including event instrumentation, analysis, and deriving actionable product insights.
• Ability to identify and debug web server issues, including analyzing error patterns, performance bottlenecks, and misconfigurations using observability tools and server logs.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, with a track record of effectively collaborating in a remote working environment.

~ PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS or Azure, is highly desirable.
Experience in working on Authentication and Authorization with any Identity Providers.
Experience in automation with Web Driver IO.
Knowledge/experience in working with DevOps/CICD.
Knowledge/experience in working with Databricks
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