Senior Software Engineer, Member

The role:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Member Growth engineering team at SoFi, where we are designing for the future of personal finance. We are looking to help our Members find their path to financial independence by providing them with the tools, resources, and guidance they need to get there. We want to be part of the customers financial journey by providing them timely insights, tailored to their needs, that will establish and build trust. Building this will involve taking a thoughtful and personalized approach towards every user’s financial needs.

The ideal candidate is collaborative, product-minded, and pragmatic, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for the quality of both the code and finished product. At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying and continual improvement and evolution. We also pride ourselves on a philosophy of continuous learning, and you should likewise be committed to furthering your own career growth as well as to providing mentorship for your fellow team members.

What you’ll do:

Lead the development and testing of system components/services, code and design reviews

Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product

Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions

Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment

Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team

Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies

Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers

What you’ll need:

Bachelor’s Degree, ideally in a technical field, but we understand great engineers come from all sorts of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience

4+ 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 and ORMs

You should have worked on a SOA or microservice-based application.

Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done

Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion

Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features, not polishing perfect code or architecture

Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests

Nice to have:

Interest in personal finance

Experience managing your own investments or experience taking out loans

Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems

Full-stack experience, either toward systems (kafka, docker, posix), databases (postgres), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)

Experience building data insight products