Job Description

Oportun is looking for a Staff Engineer – Mobile Service to join Core Services Engineering team under Product & Application Security Organization. This experienced engineer will play a key role to develop, maintain and to improve our Mobile Service Domain using cutting-edge technologies and tools. The right candidate will be a balance between a technical expert and a person who can understand and support Oportun’s business priorities and risk appetite. This individual must operate with a high degree of autonomy, accountability and maturity.

PLEASE NO C2C APPLICANTS. THIS IS A DIRECT FULL TIME POSITION WITH GREAT BENEFITS AND GREAT COMPENSATION PACKAGE AND 100% REMOTE. NO THIRD PARTY VENDORS EITHER.

AS A STAFF ENGINEER, YOU WILL

• Design and implement customer facing product features across mobile & web applications, as well as infrastructure services and components for Mobile Service
• Be an SME and “Go To” person in Mobile Service domain with expertise in front end technologies and latest frameworks ( such as Angular, Ionic etc.)
• Drive design, development, strategy for deployment and launch of Mobile native app.
• Collaborate with multiple product and engineering teams, external partners, release engineering and other stakeholders, be the representative of the technical team in x-functional forums.
• Champion best software engineering practices such as continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.
• Ensure the systems we build/maintain are highly reliable and scalable
• Ensure that reported issues and bugs are prioritized and addressed correctly in an appropriate time frame
• Drive design and code reviews.
• Write quality code and documentation, be the gatekeeper to maintain best standards for code hygiene and practices across the team members.
• Design and maintain KPI’s and metrics to measure success of critical features and capabilities, identify issues using proper alerting mechanisms
• Monitor security vulnerabilities from various internal and external sources, address resolution of them in timely manner.
• Guide and mentor other teammates and junior member.

YOUR MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS in Computer Science or related area.
• 10+ years of a relevant work experience.
• Strong knowledge and experience (5+ years preferred) with Front end frameworks (such as Angular, React, Ionic) for web based, native and hybrid solutions for Mobile Development.
• Experience of releasing major and incremental versions of mobile apps on AppStore (such as Google Play store, iOS)
• 3+ years of experience with RESTful services and Service Oriented Architecture design patterns.
• Experience with full stack application development
• Experience with high-performance distributed systems.
• Experience in core JAVA technologies including Spring Framework, JMS, Hibernate, and Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• Experience working with RDMS ( such as MYSQL) and NoSQL ( such as MongoDB, REDIS, Cassandra )
• Experience with analytical tools( such as SumoLogic) for metrics reporting, logging and troubleshooting and alerting.
• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum and CI/CD environment.
• Experience with Test Driven Development using JUnit/TestNG testing frameworks.
• Experience working with version control using GIT/BitBucket.
• Excellent documentation and collaboration skills.
• Applicable certification strongly preferred
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Good presentation skills, superior team work and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and respond with urgency.

Company Description

Every day is an opportunity to put our mission-driven, technology-powered solutions to work by lending a hand to people who are typically shut out of the financial mainstream. We even won the FinTech Breakthrough Award for best consumer lending product and we’ve been recognized for our role in inventing the future as one of Time magazine’s Genius Companies . We count ourselves lucky to work within a diverse community of interesting, intelligent, and insatiably curious people who arrive at Oportun with expertise in a variety of backgrounds. And we’re proud that our team loves showing up to work every day. We’ve been named a best place to work in the San Francisco Bay Area for three years running and by American Banker as a Best FinTech to Work For in 2018 .