Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a digital banking platform that puts its 2.2 million members' financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing and savings, Oportun empowers members with the confidence to build a better financial future. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $17.8 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2.3 billion in interest and fees, and helped our members save an average of more than $1,800 annually. For more information, visit Oportun.com.
WORKING AT OPORTUN
Working at Oportun means enjoying a differentiated experience of being part of a team that fosters a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where we all feel a sense of belonging and are encouraged to share our perspectives. This inclusive culture is directly connected to our organization's performance and ability to fulfill our mission of delivering affordable credit to those left out of the financial mainstream. We celebrate and nurture our inclusive culture through our employee resource groups.
What We're Looking for In An Ideal Candidate
- Demonstrable knowledge of DevOps culture and modern CI/CD best practices.
- Someone who is autonomous and can learn our environments, configurations, and systems quickly.
- Well versed in Amazon Web Services cloud solutions, architecture, related technologies and their interdependencies is a must
- Solid understanding and abilities with technologies/languages like Python, Linux shell scripts, configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, or Ansible), Git, Groovy.
- Extensive experience using tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, AWS(EC2, EKS, IAM, S3) CloudFormation are the most critical, but experience with S3, EBS, and other services are a big plus.. Examples of other tools, etc. that would be nice to have include Apache, Nginx, Maven, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis. Don’t need to have in-depth experience with all of these, but this is representative of a good mix of skillset needed..
- Experience in Infrastructure as a Code - IAC - Terraform/Ansible/Cloud formation
- Working experience of modern engineering operations duties, including providing the necessary tools and infrastructure to support high performance development and QA teams.
- Working experience with providing a Platform-as-a-Service to development teams to promote development efficiency and reducing delivery risk.
- Strong optimization skills to improve performance, scalability, and usability of our applications.
- Ability and drive to collaborate with rest of team to research, design, develop, and implement automation release features and enhancements.
- A track record of writing clean, high quality, high performing, scalable code.
- Ability to influence, guide, and reinforce the adoption of standards and processes across the development teams.
- An individual who: can explain and demonstrate improvements in a given approach, provide alternative approaches with documented examples of anti-patterns, and is an empathetic team player.
Qualifications
- 6+ years as a software or systems engineer, with a minimum of 4+ years in release automation implementation.
- 4+ years’ experience in designing, building and managing large scale application infrastructure in AWS.
- Expert knowledge in some Configuration Management tool (preferably Ansible, but Chef and Puppet experience are fine)
- Expert knowledge in some Continuous Integration tool or platform (Jenkins & groovy pipeline is must).
- Expert knowledge in CICD concepts and toolchain development.
- Experience on Java and Angular is added advantage
- MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
#LI-REMOTE
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants for employment opportunities without regard to race, age, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other category protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
California applicants can find a copy of Oportun's CCPA Notice here: https://oportun.com/privacy/california-privacy-notice/.
We will never request personal identifiable information (bank, credit card, etc.) before you are hired. We do not charge you for pre-employment fees such as background checks, training, or equipment. If you think you have been a victim of fraud by someone posing as us, please report your experience to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).
What We Do
Oportun is an A.I.-powered digital banking platform that seeks to make financial health effortless for anyone. Driven by a mission to provide inclusive and affordable financial services, Oportun helps its nearly 1.5 million hardworking members meet their daily borrowing, savings, banking, and investing needs. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $12 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2 billion in interest and fees, and automatically helped members set aside more than $7.2 billion for rainy days and other needs. In recognition of its responsibly designed products, Oportun has been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) since 2009.
