Staff Software Engineer, Member Benefits

The role:

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Member Benefits 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: 

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, demonstrating best practices with clear and exemplary usage of the team’s stack (Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL)
• Delivers highly available and scalable services in a production environment
• Collaborates across functions to tackle ambiguous, system-wide problems, with a primary focus on the Member Benefits team
• Facilitates the team’s design process to produce high-quality technical design documents, ensures critical decisions are well-reasoned and aligned, and mentors others in technical design best practices
• Prioritizes and drives the team’s technical priorities, both short term and mid term
• Works with the product and engineering teams in ensuring better understanding of cross-team dependencies and parallelizing execution across teams
• Recognizes critical team decisions, can reason about alternative solutions, articulate technical tradeoffs, and drive appropriate review and alignment with the broader SoFi engineering community
• Participates in group-level strategic planning and resource prioritization, representing the team’s perspective; aligns team projects with group direction

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
• 5-7+ years programming experience, with a track record of leading complex projects and systems.
• Expertise in our core stack: Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL / AWS
• Proficiency in frameworks and tools like Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Experience with cloud platforms (eg:, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Strong understanding of relational databases, ORMs and REST APIs
• 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
• Deep experience with Agile methodologies as well as software testing: unit, integration, and end-to-end

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