About this role
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Who we are:
Shape a brighter financial future with us.
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
*Flexible on location, can be near any of our SoFi offices. Slight preference for SF / SEA OR pacific time zones..
The role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a natural inclination to solve complex problems. You will play a pivotal role in the design and implementation of systems that power our home screen and other core experiences. This role requires a deep expertise in building distributed systems, familiarity with cross-functional collaboration, and a strategic ability to align engineering initiatives with business objectives.
As a Senior Engineer, you’ll be in the middle of it all. You’ll work across functional and organizational boundaries to ship new features, improve our system architecture, squash bugs, and hone your technical skills. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker.
What you’ll do:
- Produce well-designed, scalable, and reusable code on schedule
- Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
- Define technical architecture for the product
- Develop and improve systems that impact multiple teams
- Track project performance against defined milestones/goals
- Mentor other engineers and support the technical culture
- Create and improve technical documentation
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s degree (ideally in a technical field), but we understand great engineers come from a variety of backgrounds; we will also consider relevant work experience
- 5+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
- Our core stack is Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL, and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production
- You should have 2+ years Java or Kotlin programming experience
- You should have a strong understanding of relational databases
- You should have worked on a SOA or microservice-based application
- Experience working with asynchronous systems and event based systems (queues, streams)
- Pragmatic approach towards handling tech debt versus shipping new features
Nice to have:
- Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLM) into products
- Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems
- Full-stack experience across backend and frontend
- History of building digital products in the financial space
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Other facts
About SoFi
SoFi is a values-driven company on a mission to help our members get their money right. We create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better, so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions—from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more.
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What you'll do
- The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement systems that power core experiences, focusing on producing scalable and reusable code. They will also mentor other engineers and improve technical documentation.
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