SoFi

Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, demonstrating best practices with clear and exemplary usage of the team's stack (Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL). 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). Full-stack experience, either toward systems (kafka, docker, posix), databases (postgres), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)

staff software engineer

<div>Employee Applicant Privacy Notice 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. 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: <ul><li>Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, demonstrating best practices with clear and exemplary usage of the team's stack (Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL)</li><li>Delivers highly available and scalable services in a production environment</li><li>Collaborates across functions to tackle ambiguous, system-wide problems, with a primary focus on the Member Benefits team</li><li>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</li><li>Prioritizes and drives the team's technical priorities, both short term and mid term</li><li>Works with the product and engineering teams in ensuring better understanding of cross-team dependencies and parallelizing execution across teams</li><li>Recognizes critical team decisions, can reason about alternative solutions, articulate technical tradeoffs, and drive appropriate review and alignment with the broader SoFi engineering community</li><li>Participates in group-level strategic planning and resource prioritization, representing the team's perspective; aligns team projects with group direction</li></ul> What you'll need: <ul><li>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</li><li>5-7+ years programming experience, with a track record of leading complex projects and systems.</li><li>Expertise in our core stack: Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL / AWS</li><li>Proficiency in frameworks and tools like Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform</li><li>Experience with cloud platforms (eg:, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)</li><li>Strong understanding of relational databases, ORMs and REST APIs</li><li>Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion</li><li>Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features, not polishing perfect code or architecture</li><li>Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests</li><li>Deep experience with Agile methodologies as well as software testing: unit, integration, and end-to-end</li></ul> Nice to have: <ul><li>Interest in personal finance</li><li>Experience managing your own investments or experience taking out loans</li><li>Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems</li><li>Full-stack experience, either toward systems (kafka, docker, posix), databases (postgres), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)</li><li>Experience building data insight products</li></ul> Compensation and Benefits The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate's experience, skills, and location. To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page! SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law. The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. New York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights SoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [redacted]. Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time. Internal Employees If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.</div>

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