Senior Staff Software Architect: Lead Scalable Systems

Oportun; México; Presencial; MXN 1.800.000 - 2.400.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Oportun is seeking a Sr Staff Software Engineer to lead design, implementation, and delivery of scalable systems across Product, Platform and Infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, shape technical strategy, and drive cross‑functional initiatives in a fintech environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Data, Risk, Compliance and Operations to align technical solutions with business outcomes, while ensuring reliability and coding excellence across distributed services and cloud platforms.

Formación

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing, building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership across multiple teams or domains.
• Deep experience with backend services, APIs, data flows, and cloud-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, reliability, observability and operations.

Responsabilidades

• Provide senior technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, systems, and business domains.
• Drive architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable software systems.
• Lead complex cross-functional technical initiatives from discovery and design through delivery and production operation.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Risk, Compliance, Operations, Customer Experience, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with business outcomes.
• Evaluate existing systems and identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, performance, maintainability, observability, and developer productivity.
• Design and guide implementation of backend services, APIs, integrations, platform capabilities, and distributed systems.
• Influence technical strategy, roadmap planning, and prioritization across teams.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices for architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Serve as a technical mentor to engineers and technical leads, raising the bar for design quality, execution, and ownership.
• Help teams make sound technical trade-offs across speed, quality, scalability, reliability, security and long-term maintainability.
• Support modernization efforts, platform improvements, and integration strategies across legacy and modern systems.
• Use AI-enabled engineering tools, automation and productivity solutions to improve development workflows, operational efficiency, and team effectiveness.
• Identify practical opportunities where AI-assisted tools or automation can improve customer experience, internal workflows, engineering productivity or operational outcomes.
• Collaborate on systems that may include customer communications, telephony, contact center workflows, servicing platforms or enterprise integrations.
• Participate in production support, incident review, root-cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements for critical systems.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems design

Technical leadership

Backend services & APIs

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

CI/CD & automation

Communication skills

Mentoring engineers

System design & architecture

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Descripción del empleo

Oportun is seeking a Sr Staff Software Engineer to lead design, implementation, and delivery of scalable systems across Product, Platform and Infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, shape technical strategy, and drive cross‑functional initiatives in a fintech environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Data, Risk, Compliance and Operations to align technical solutions with business outcomes, while ensuring reliability and coding excellence across distributed services and cloud platforms.