Software Engineering Manager - Remote

Overview

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.

In Short

• Responsible for creating and influencing innovative solutions that meet not only functional, but also performance, scalability and reliability requirements.
• Highly motivated self-starter who loves ownership and responsibility while working in a collaborative and interdependent team environment.
• Lead the development and implementation of groundbreaking software solutions, focusing on cloud technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code / Platform-as-a Service (e.g., Terraform/Ansible/Cloud Formation) Kubernetes.
• Ensure the craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams.
• Evolution of the software engineering practice within the organization, including better reporting, tools, and evolution of development methodology.
• Effectively communicate and build alignment up, down and sideways across the organization.
• Be a champion for Diversity and Inclusion by sourcing, hiring, and advocating for a diverse group of engineers.
• Continue to build an effective development organization by developing and managing the group, and conducting performance reviews of team members.
• Work with multiple teams of engineers to design, develop, and test major software and systems components using an agile, scrum methodology.

Requirements

• 12+ years of overall experience in engineering with Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of recent management experience, managing more than one team during that time with 15+ team members.
• 5+ years experience in relational DBs like MySQL.
• Experience working with version control using GIT/BitBucket, Docker containers, Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of Linux and AWS Networking concepts.
• Experience in the design of new systems or redesign of existing systems to meet business req’s, changing needs, or newer technology.
• Strong foundation in software engineering, particularly in cloud computing environments like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Benefits

• Inclusive culture that fosters a sense of belonging.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Work in a mission-driven organization focused on delivering affordable credit.