Director of Engineering, Oportun
$173.3-277.3k
Digital banking & loan platform
Job no longer available
Digital banking & loan platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$173.3-277.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people across the United States create a brighter financial future.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Oportun is an AI-powered digital banking platform that makes financial health effortless for anyone. Following the company’s acquisition of former competitor Digit, it has expanded its services to offer a wider range of bank features – providing personal loans, credit cards, saving accounts, and an investment app.
Many struggle with the paradox of “you have to have credit to build credit”, as legacy banking systems tend to give those beginning their credit journeys a bad deal. Capitalizing on the growth in popularity of mobile banking apps, Oportun provides affordable and accessible financial services to those already using mobile banking apps.
While Oportun faces a number of strong market competitors, it has served millions of customers and facilitated billions in credit and savings - demonstrating that it is a force to be reckoned with. It has also raised considerable funding that will support its further development.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2019
$27.5m
SERIES C
Jun 2016
$22.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $66.3m
Company benefits
- Paid time off
- Bonus and incentive programs
- Comprehensive healthcare packages, including medical, dental, vision, and flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Remote work options for many of our positions
- Virtual coffee chats, holiday parties, and events
Company HQ
San Carlos, CA
Leadership
Raul Vazquez
(CEO)Former EVP of Walmart. They are a Member of the Board of Directors at Intuit.
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