Oportun

Oportun

Oportun is a financial services company that provides loans with convenient and fixed payments to help customers establish credit history and build a better future. With over 900,000 customers served and $3,300 million in loans granted, Oportun operate...

Banks
1K-5K
Founded 2005
$566M raised

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Experience using AI-enabled tools, copilots, automation platforms, or intelligent productivity solutions to improve engineering workflows (strongly recommended).
  • Practical understanding of how AI tools can support software development, knowledge discovery, documentation, testing, operational support, or workflow automation (strongly recommended).
  • Experience with telephony, contact center platforms, IVR, call routing, voice systems, customer communications, or customer engagement technologies (preferred).
  • Experience with platforms such as Twilio, Amazon Connect, Genesys, Five9, NICE, Cisco, Avaya, or similar technologies (preferred).
  • Experience integrating with third-party SaaS platforms, vendor APIs, or enterprise systems (preferred).
  • Experience in fintech, financial services, lending, risk, servicing, collections, customer support, or regulated environments (preferred).
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems and improving reliability of business-critical platforms (preferred).

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility is indicated by the #LI-REMOTE posting.
  • Oportun provides an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and belonging-oriented workplace culture.
  • The company offers employee resource groups to support its culture and employees.
  • Equal opportunity employment consideration for all qualified applicants.
  • No pre-employment fees are charged for background checks, training, or equipment.
  • Oportun states it does not request personal identifiable information such as bank or credit card details before hiring.

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