Sr. Data Engineer

ABOUT OPORTUN

Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a digital banking platform that places its 1.9 million members’ monetary objectives inside attain. With clever borrowing, financial savings, budgeting, and spending capabilities, Oportun empowers members with the arrogance to construct a greater monetary future. Since inception, Oportun has offered greater than $15.5 billion in accountable and inexpensive credit score, saved its members greater than $2.3 billion in curiosity and charges, and helped our members save a median of greater than $1,800 yearly. For extra info, go to Oportun.com.

 

WORKING AT OPORTUN

Working at Oportun means having fun with a differentiated expertise of being a part of a group that fosters a various, equitable and inclusive tradition the place all of us really feel a way of belonging and are inspired to share our views. This inclusive tradition is instantly related to our group’s efficiency and skill to meet our mission of delivering inexpensive credit score to these not noted of the monetary mainstream. We rejoice and nurture our inclusive tradition by way of our worker useful resource teams.

Engineering Enterprise Unit Overview:

The constitution for Engineering group at Oportun is to be the world-class engineering drive behind our revolutionary merchandise. The group performs an important position in designing, creating, and sustaining cutting-edge software program options that energy our mission and advance) our enterprise. We strike a steadiness between leveraging main instruments and creating in-house options to create member experiences that empower their monetary independence.

The gifted engineers on this group are devoted to delivering and sustaining performant, elegant, and intuitive programs to our enterprise companions and retail members. Our platform combines service-oriented platform options with refined consumer expertise and is enabled by way of a best-in-class (and enjoyable to make use of!) automated improvement infrastructure. We show that FinTech is extra enjoyable, more difficult, and in our case, extra rewarding as we construct know-how that modifications our members’ lives.

Engineering at Oportun is accountable for top of the range and scalable technical execution to attain enterprise objectives and product imaginative and prescient. They guarantee enterprise continuity to members by successfully managing programs and providers – overseeing technical architectures and system well being. As well as, they’re answerable for figuring out and executing on the technical roadmap that permits product imaginative and prescient in addition to fosters member & enterprise development in a scalable and environment friendly method.

The Enterprise Information and Expertise (EDT) pillar inside the Engineering Enterprise Unit focusses on enabling broad use of company knowledge property while making certain high quality, availability, and safety throughout the information panorama.

Place Overview:

As a Sr. Information Engineer at Oportun, you’ll be a key member of our EDT group, answerable for designing, creating, and sustaining refined software program / knowledge platforms in reaching the constitution of the engineering group. Your mastery of a technical area allows you to take up enterprise issues and clear up them with a technical resolution. Together with your depth of experience and management talents, you’ll actively contribute to architectural selections, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate carefully with cross-functional groups to ship high-quality, scalable software program options that advance our affect available in the market. This can be a position the place you’ll have the chance to take up duty in main the know-how effort – from technical necessities gathering to remaining profitable supply of the product – for big initiatives (cross-functional and multi-month-long initiatives).

 Key Obligations:

• You actively contribute to the end-to-end supply of advanced software program functions, making certain adherence to greatest practices and excessive total high quality requirements.
• You might have a robust understanding of a enterprise or system area with ample data & experience across the applicable metrics and traits. You collaborate carefully with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to know enterprise wants and translate them into efficient software program options.
• You present technical management and experience, guiding the group in making sound architectural selections and fixing difficult technical issues. Your options anticipate scale, reliability, monitoring, integration, and extensibility.
• You conduct code opinions and supply constructive suggestions to make sure code high quality, efficiency, and maintainability. You mentor and coach junior engineers, fostering a tradition of steady studying, development, and technical excellence inside the group.
• You play a big position within the ongoing evolution and refinement of present instruments and functions utilized by the group, and drive adoption of latest practices inside your group.
• You’re taking possession of (buyer) points, together with preliminary troubleshooting, identification of root trigger and situation escalation or decision, whereas sustaining the general reliability and efficiency of our programs.
• You set the benchmark for responsiveness and possession and total accountability of engineering programs.
• You independently drive and lead a number of options, contribute to (a) massive challenge(s) and lead smaller initiatives.  You’ll be able to orchestrate work that spans multiples engineers inside your group and preserve all related stakeholders knowledgeable. You help your lead/EM about your work and that of the group, that they should share with the stakeholders, together with escalation of points.

{Qualifications}:

• Bachelor’s or Grasp’s diploma in Laptop Science, Information Science, or a associated discipline.
• 5+ years of expertise in knowledge engineering, with a deal with knowledge structure, ETL, and database administration.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python/PySpark and Java /Scala
• Experience in huge knowledge applied sciences resembling Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and many others.
• In-depth data of SQL and expertise with numerous database applied sciences (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL databases).
• Expertise and experience in constructing advanced end-to-end knowledge pipelines.
• Expertise with orchestration and designing job schedules utilizing the CICD instruments like Jenkins and Airflow.
• Means to work in an Agile setting (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, and many others).
• Means to mentor junior group members.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their knowledge providers (e.g., AWS Redshift, S3, Azure SQL Information Warehouse).
• Sturdy management, problem-solving, and decision-making expertise.
• Glorious communication and collaboration talents.
• Data of FinTech (good to have).

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