Staff Software Engineer, Relay

Seattle WA - onsite 1x per week * 

The role:

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Relay engineering team at SoFi, where we are designing for the future of personal finance. Today we are helping millions of customers find their path to financial independence by providing them with the tools, resources, and guidance they need to get there. Next up, our team’s objective is to provide personalized financial insights to our customers. To do this we will be building systems that ingest and learn from billions of financial data points to generate actionable next steps for our customers in their financial journey.

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:

• Drive technical architecture, design decisions and cross-functional discussions for the product
• Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
• Lead the design, development and testing of systems
• Lead code and system design reviews
• Translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions
• 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
• Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity. Develop and apply advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories, and concepts. Broad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialty
• Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment

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
• 6+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern tech stack
• Our core stack is Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL. We run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production. 
• You should have 4+ 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.
• Experience working with asynchronous systems and event based systems (queues, streams)
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
• Strong sense of ownership; 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 and experience in personal finance
• Experience building 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