Senior Engineering Manager

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 Oportun.com.

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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.
• Responsible for creating and influencing innovative solutions that meet not only functional, but also performance, scalability and reliability requirements.
• 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.
• Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed execution plans and schedules; manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team by defining, implementing and maintaining a coherent, progressive development strategy for our product line.
• 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.

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