Senior Staff Software Engineer

Oportun is on a mission to deploy high availability, fault tolerant, scalable, and efficient applications in a Continuous-delivery mindset in a container-based environment. We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to help design, build, and maintain foundational services that are built on top of it. This role will have significant impact on the success of Oportun’s continuous high speed value delivery, 0 downtime, shift-left, and high-availability strategy. You will help define, refine, standardize, implement, and evangelize approaches to software development in a Continuous Delivery zero-downtime environment that raises the bar across the enterprise. You will build platform architecture for the enterprise to make our engineers more productive and our solutions more robust. You will rearchitect foundational services that will help become force multipliers for the company. You will be called upon to mediate discussions and build alignment on technical approach across teams. Your delivery of architecture sets the standard for the enterprise with a high focus on force multiplication, engineering excellence, innovation, continuous delivery, and a shift-left mentality. You lead incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value. You drive operational excellence across the org and propose scalable ways to continually improve OE. You break through surface-level remediation for on-call issues and identify high-impact initiatives to reduce on-call escalation across the organization. You provide technical and organizational guidance while continuing to be deeply engaged in technical delivery of platform services and infrastructure. You enable collaboration between teams in the technology organization through the platform services and infrastructure you design and implement. You can recognize opportunities where Oportun is under or overinvested in platform capabilities and can build a strong case on why Oportun needs to focus on these areas. Alongside your peers you will design and drive the platform services and infrastructure strategy across the CTO organization.