Job Details

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.

The Role:

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the transformation of our Money and Bank product architecture and payments platform. In this role, you will focus on evolving our banking core and building core rails to enable money transfers from SoFi products to external financial institutions. As a member of the bank platform team, you will play a critical role in providing transfer capabilities that power multiple products across the company, creating broad, company-wide impact. Success in this role requires collaborating across teams in a highly cross-functional environment and planning and executing with a unified campaign mindset to navigate the complexity and interdependencies of these initiatives.

As a SoFi staff software engineer, you'll be in the middle of it all acting as a leader and force multiplier – you'll work with stakeholders to implement functionality, architect our systems, squash bugs, and continually grow as an engineer. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker.

What You'll Do:

• Full development life-cycle design from project requirement to deployment.
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, deliverables, and goals.
• Lead cross-functional delivery teams to ensure deliverables are met.
• Track project performance against defined milestones/goals.
• Conduct process improvement projects to increase performance in vital program metrics.
• Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leadership
• Maintain strict compliance with established project management policies and guidelines.
• Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Make significant contributions to the code base.
• Define best practices and uphold coding standards.
• Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity. Develops and applies advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories, and concepts. Broad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialty.
• Work within the Engineering team to develop features that specifically benefit our users.
• Must be able to deliver high-quality code on schedule, communicate with groups in and outside the development team.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science Degree or equivalent from a fully-accredited college or university
• 6+ years Java programming experience
• Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / PostgreSQL/ React, and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production
• 2+ years Java, Kotlin or Scala programming experience
• A proven understanding of relational databases and ORMs
• Experience working on a SOA or microservice-based application.
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
• Solid 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:

• Good knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
• Knowledge in analytics, metrics, and monitoring integrations
• Test-driven development along with unit and integration testing.

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.