
Staff Software Engineer
Oportun
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $143,800 - $230,100 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance software architectures.
- Develop architectural blueprints and technical roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
- Ensure best practices, design patterns, and architectural principles are followed.
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, tools, and frameworks.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.
- Ensure technology alignment with enterprise standards and business goals.
- Work closely with development teams, product managers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines, scalability, and performance tuning.
- Define and enforce architectural governance, coding standards, and security policies.
- Conduct design and code reviews to ensure compliance with architectural guidelines.
- Identify potential risks and create mitigation plans.
- Analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks to improve efficiency.
- Ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and maintainable.
Requirements
- 11+ 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 in a leadership capacity with high quality.
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with a passion for tackling complex technical and business problems.
- Experience in Java, SpringBoot development, preferably Kotlin
- Experience in Front-End development like Angular.
- Experience in relational databases like MySQL, MariaDB and SQL
- Experience in NoSQL databases like Mongo DB
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes (like EKS) for orchestration
- Experience working on cloud services like AWS
- Experience working with Gradle, writing 100% code coverage through unit and integration tests.
- Experience with working on APM tools for observability and alerting like Datadog/New Relic/Dynatrace/Splunk or something equivalent.
- Familiarity with business intelligence tools that allow you to visualize and analyze data and coming up with metrics that would help make decisions to improve the system.
- Ability to quickly learn new systems/requirements and create POCs and develop code.
- Ability to make informed technical design decisions that consider long-term maintainability, scalability, and performance.
- Capability to assess and identify all impacted components during architectural or framework upgrades.
- Experience with user behavior analytics, including event instrumentation, analysis, and deriving actionable product insights.
- Ability to identify and debug web server issues, including analyzing error patterns, performance bottlenecks, and misconfigurations using observability tools and server logs.
- Solid grasp of version control systems, such as Git.
- Knowledge in OAuth2.
- Proven ability to mentor and lead a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, with a track record of effectively collaborating in a remote working environment.
- Flair to identify improvisation areas and provide solutions with newer technologies.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
JavaSpringBootKotlinAngularMySQLMariaDBSQLMongoDBDockerKubernetes
Soft skills
problem-solvinganalytical skillstechnical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationcommunicationinterpersonal abilitiesadaptabilitydecision-makingimprovisation