Front End Engineer

Oportun is a financial technology company founded in 2005. Our mission is to provide affordable loans to US Latinos and others with limited credit history so they can establish credit and build a better future. Oportun uses advanced data analytics and technology to “score” and lend money to individuals with limited credit history – people other lenders consider “unscorable.”

- The frontend team makes use of the best tools and frameworks to deliver an exceptional experience to our retail agents. - We primarily work in Javascript frameworks, making heavy use of Angular.JS/SASS/Grunt and Backbone (with require.js for dependency injection). - Most of the team uses Sublime Text and Textmate in OSX, but we won’t judge you if you prefer Vim in Ubuntu. We trust you to choose the right tools for the job.

- Desire for quick-iteration--working closely with design and product teams to make incremental and impactful enhancements to the frontend - Flexibility to work on multiple projects at once - Experience with responsive web design (knowing what media queries are, for example, and when to use them) - Experience with REST-based APIs - 2-3 years experience with at least one of the following frontend frameworks: Angular.js, Backbone, Ember.js, Knockout.js - Comfortable using the Atlassian tools to track your tasks and code (JIRA/Bitbucket) - BS in Computer Science or equivalent - Experience contributing front-end code to a publicly available, consumer-focused web application - Expert level understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript (vanilla js and popular libraries like Underscore.js and jQuery) - A passion for quality design, and pixel-perfect implementation. - 3-5 years experience shipping quality frontend code