ENGINEERING BUSINESS UNIT OVERVIEW
The charter for Engineering group at Oportun is to be the world-class engineering force behind our innovative products. The group plays a vital role in designing, developing, and maintaining cutting-edge software solutions that power our mission and advance) our business. We strike a balance between leveraging leading tools and developing in-house solutions to create member experiences that empower their financial independence.
The talented engineers in this group are dedicated to delivering and maintaining performant, elegant, and intuitive systems to our business partners and retail members. Our platform combines service-oriented platform features with sophisticated user experience and is enabled through a best-in-class (and fun to use!) automated development infrastructure. We prove that FinTech is more fun, more challenging, and in our case, more rewarding as we build technology that changes our members’ lives.
Engineering at Oportun is responsible for high quality and scalable technical execution to achieve business goals and product vision. They ensure business continuity to members by effectively managing systems and services - overseeing technical architectures and system health. In addition, they are responsible for identifying and executing on the technical roadmap that enables product vision as well as fosters member & business growth in a scalable and efficient manner.
The Sr. Staff Software Engineer role is a domain expert in multiple areas, in addition to being an integral member of the core technical leadership of the organization. The Sr. Staff Engineer weighs in on important technical decisions affecting the organization.
As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you mentor other Staff Engineers to increase their impact and abilities both within the org and across the company. You lead design, implementation and effective delivery to customers of multiple company-wide objectives and work well under pressure, respond with urgency and operate with a high degree of autonomy, accountability and maturity.
Strategic thinking is a default part of your execution. You identify, tackle, and deliver on strategically important problems at the organizational level - across Product, Platform and Infrastructure - and can recognize threats and opportunities impacting the organization, devise a strategy, and partner with everyone needed to execute on the strategy.
You are an evangelist who understands cost, effort, adoption, impact and related aspects, driving meaningful change across the technology group. The Sr. Staff Engineer is sought out for the techno-functional expertise in one/more areas by a large cross section of the engineering group, thereby making this role a model for well-rounded technical excellence in the entire engineering group. Overall, this Sr. Staff Engineer role is a step towards becoming part of a very small group of techno-functional experts who command respect across the entire organization for their leadership and impact to the overall technology group.