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Oportun
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See open jobs at Oportun.See open jobs similar to "Director of Engineering" RippleWorks.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 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.
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.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Director Engineering is part of a very select (and small) group of techno-functional experts who command respect across the entire organization for their leadership and impact to the overall technology group. You will be a key visionary and technical leader within our accomplished engineering team, responsible for shaping the architecture, design, and development of sophisticated software solutions that drive our mission and enhance our business impact.
You are at the forefront of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices, championing their adoption to enhance our products and services. You identify and deliver on strategically important problems across multiple teams incorporating and anticipating compliance, regulatory and business aspects. You partner with appropriate stakeholders to set the product strategy for services or products of high importance.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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.
REQUIREMENTS
Typically requires a minimum 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or a Master's degree with an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Proven track record of delivering sophisticated software solutions and leading complex technical projects.
Expertise in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Python, C++, or similar.
Complete Mastery over data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
Demonstrated experience in web application development, RESTful APIs, and frontend technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is advantageous.
Proficiency in working with relational databases and SQL.
Strong grasp of version control systems, such as Git.
Proven track record designing and building scalable and reliable distributed systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
Proven ability to mentor and lead a technical organization , fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment.
Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with a passion for tackling complex technical challenges.
Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities, with a track record of effectively collaborating in a team-oriented environment.
"The US base salary range for this full-time position is $173,300 - $277,300.
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