Sr. Staff Software Engineer,Cloud (R11550)

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.

THE ROLE :

Oportun is on a mission to deploy high availability, fault tolerant, scalable,

and efficient applications in a Shift-Left & Continuous-delivery mindset in a

container-based public cloud environment.

We are seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer to help design, build, and maintain our

cloud platform. This role will have significant impact on the success of

Oportuns continuous delivery, 0 downtime, shift-left, and high-availability

strategy. We are seeking an experienced software engineer who has built or

continues to build customer facing applications to create the best possible

developer experience in launching and running container-based applications

in the cloud.

The ideal candidate for this role will have significant experience in cloud

platform management (specifically AWS), product development, a security

engineering mindset, and a keen eye towards self-service for all of product

engineering – reducing or eliminating dependencies on the platform team to

launch and maintain their products.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• You help define, standardize, implement, and evangelize approaches to software development in a Continuous Delivery 0-downtime environment that raise the bar across the enterprise.
• You build cloud platform architecture solutions for the enterprise to make our engineers more productive and our solutions more robust.
• You are called upon to mediate discussions and build aligment on technical approach across teams
• Your delivery of architecture sets the standard for the enterprise with a high focus on engineering excellence, innovation, continuous delivery, and a shift-left mentality.
• 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 org and propose scalable

ways to continually improve OE

identify high-impact initiatives to reduce on-call escalation across the

organization

be deeply engaged in technical delivery of cloud platform solutions and

capabilities

through the platform architecture you implement.

overinvested in cloud platform capabilities and can build a strong case

on why Oportun needs to focus on these areas

strategy across the CTO organization

REQUIREMENTS :

Bachelor's degree; or a Master's degree with an equivalent

combination of education and experience.

focus on full-stack development and cloud platform technologies.

C++, or similar.

stability, and scalability

technical and business problems.

work effectively in cross-functional teams

complex business problems

management, and maintenance – Specifically AWS, GCP, or Azure

Formation

deployment capabilities

and platform security

container-based applications

experience in tools like Istio, StrongDM, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants for employment opportunities without regard to race, age, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other category protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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