Senior Software Engineer (R14037)

About this role

Who We Are Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a mission-driven financial services company that puts its members' financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing, savings, and budgeting capabilities, Oportun empowers members with the confidence to build a better financial future. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $22.7 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2.5 billion in interest and fees, and helped its members set aside an average of more than $1,800 annually.

The Opportunity The mission for the Engineering Ecosystem Org at Oportun is to be the force-multiplicative organization that empowers engineers to deliver member value with high speed and high quality. Teams in this Org play a vital role in designing, developing, and maintaining cutting-edge software solutions that power our mission and advance our business. We strike a balance between leveraging leading tools and developing in-house solutions to create member experiences that empower their financial independence.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Oportun, you will be a key technical contributor responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, reliable platform services and shared libraries. You will work closely with Staff Engineers, product teams, and other senior engineers to evolve the engineering platform and improve developer productivity, system reliability, and delivery velocity. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and maintain our platform and associated services.

This role will have a meaningful impact on Oportun’s evolving platform and engineering ecosystem. You will contribute to architectural decisions, lead complex features end-to-end, and help raise the technical bar across your immediate teams. The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on engineer with experience building and operating distributed systems, who enjoys solving complex technical problems and mentoring other engineers while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day development.

At Oportun, we move fast, and we hold each other to a high bar. If you care about doing your best work while actually moving the needle for real people, you'll fit right in. What You'll Do Your day-today You’ll design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable and reliable platform services and shared libraries. You’ll contribute to platform and system architecture decisions with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience.