Principal Software Engineer (R11342)

ABOUT OPORTUN

Oportun (Nasdaq : OPRT) is a digital banking platform that puts its 2.2 million members' financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing and savings, Oportun empowers members with the confidence to build a better financial future. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $17.8 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2.3 billion in interest and fees, and helped our members save an average of more than $1,800 annually. For more information, visit .

WORKING AT OPORTUN

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. We celebrate and nurture our inclusive culture through our employee resource groups.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• You lead the conceptualization, design, development, testing, and deployment of complex software applications, setting the standard for best practices and high-quality coding. You establish, influence, and ensure policies and procedures for developing extensible, reusable, and maintainable code, identifying, and addressing coding issues. You create and apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
• You lead platform & product development and scaling to customer requirements and apply best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and hold accountability for products that do not meet expectations.
• You oversee overall system architecture for critically important and high-impact spaces. You hold accountability for incorporating critical product strategy components into the system architecture. You create a strategic roadmap for the system architecture by considering how related systems will evolve in the near future. You establish and / or maintain processes to measure and ensure system architecture is effective, durable, and meets the current and future needs of the service or product.
• You are actively engaged in experimentation for highly complex, ambiguous, or otherwise valuable technological spaces. You provide technical leadership for problem solving and / or efficiently building software developer tools. Your mentorship to engineers across all levels, empowers their growth and promotes technical excellence throughout the group.
• You collaborate and coordinate with other senior leaders to align on policies and procedures for safe and effective dependency adoption and to negotiate and align on cross-function dependency roadmaps.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

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