Oportun

Staff Software Engineer

Oportun

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $143,800 - $230,100 per year

Job Level

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