Oportun
Oportun
Oportun is a fintech company focused on making everyday financial tools more accessible. Its products include personal loans from $300 to $10,000, savings solutions, and an app that helps customers manage borrowing and save money. Oportun also provides financial education, loan calculators, and prequalification tools designed to help people explore options without affecting their credit score. The company works with partner banks to provide FDIC-insured deposit accounts and has a team of more than 1,000 employees across fintech, insurance, and consulting.

Senior Software Engineer, ML Platforms (India Remote)

Build dependable machine-learning platforms for Oportun’s financial services products from India. Lead scalable ML infrastructure, production operations, and cross-functional technical initiatives.

Description

  • Own the design, delivery, deployment, and operation of sophisticated platform capabilities across the machine-learning lifecycle
  • Create scalable solutions for model serving, feature computation, data validation, workflow orchestration, monitoring, and production support
  • Develop reusable platform components, engineering standards, and automation that strengthen ML system reliability, scalability, observability, and operational readiness
  • Collaborate with Data Science, Product, Risk, Fraud, and Engineering to turn unclear business needs into effective technical solutions
  • Drive major technical initiatives from conception through completion and lead investigations into complex production issues
  • Define requirements, guide architecture, ship safely, evaluate outcomes, and deliver lasting corrective solutions
  • Improve engineering excellence through code and design reviews, hands-on mentoring, pairing, and contributions to platform strategy
  • Apply AI tools judiciously to reduce repetitive work and support faster, better decisions

Requirements

  • At least five years of professional experience building and operating production software systems
  • Advanced Python programming ability
  • Strong command of API design, distributed systems, service architecture, testing, and core software-design principles
  • Experience designing and operating dependable, scalable cloud-native or data-intensive systems
  • Background in ML platforms, model serving, feature engineering, data platforms, MLOps, or related technologies
  • Hands-on knowledge of SQL, databases, caching, and tracing data or requests across distributed systems
  • Understanding of the ML lifecycle, including feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, serving, monitoring, and governance
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git-based development, and production observability
  • Ability to assess technical options and communicate recommendations, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies clearly
  • Ability to mentor engineers, strengthen development practices, lead through technical influence, and connect engineering work with member, business, product, and operational outcomes
  • Willingness to experiment with AI tools and continue learning
  • Preferred experience with AWS, Databricks, MLflow, SageMaker, Spark or PySpark, Kafka, or streaming technologies
  • Preferred experience building feature platforms, model-serving systems, workflow-orchestration platforms, or internal developer platforms
  • Preferred knowledge of monitoring model, data, feature, latency, reliability, and cost metrics, plus experience handling sensitive data in regulated or financial-services settings
  • Preferred experience with Java or another backend language alongside Python, and familiarity with AI tools such as ChatGPT or Copilot

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Provident fund
  • Life and accident insurance
  • Internet allowance
  • Fuel allowance
  • Meal allowance
  • Telephone allowance
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package designed to support physical, financial, and professional well-being

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