Senior Manager, Software Engineering

ABOUT OPORTUN 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 $21.3 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. 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. POSITION OVERVIEW We are looking for experienced Engineering leaders with a passion for developing people, driving product development, engineering excellence, distributed systems, and scaling teams. RESPONSIBILITIES Recruit and groom strong engineers and future technical leaders Build strong, high performing teams by forming a strong team culture of safety, accountability, and empathy and effectively driving team execution Collaborate with partners in Product, Design, and other engineering leads to drive team vision and strategy - product roadmap, execution and resource plan, and setting priorities Level up the technical skills of your team by Coaching the team to create scalable and secure system designs Reviewing pull requests and technical design documents Being able and willing to get your hands dirty and help your team debug issues and ship code when needed Drive strong engineering practices around product development execution, operational excellence in observability, quality, reliability, and developer efficiency Effectively communicate and build alignment up, down and sideways across the organization Adopt GenAI in the team to effectively deliver force multiplicative impact Be a champion for Diversity and Inclusion by sourcing, hiring, and advocating for a diverse group of engineers Responsible for creating and influencing innovative solutions that meet not only functional, but also performance, security, scalability and reliability requirements. Highly motivated self-starter who loves ownership and responsibility while working in a collaborative and interdependent team environment. Work with multiple teams of engineers to design, develop, and test major software and systems components using an agile, scrum methodology. Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed execution plans and schedules; manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team by defining, implementing and maintaining a coherent, progressive development strategy for our product line. Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments Management of departmental resources, staffing, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team Build, Guide and Coach the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products, facilitate and support all scrum Agile ceremonies for the teams as Scrum master. Deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met Ensure the craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams Evolution of the software engineering practice within the organization, including better reporting, tools, and evolution of development methodology Continue to buil ... (truncated, view full listing at source)