Senior Software Engineer, Backend Services
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The role
The Member team is responsible for building member-first experiences that bring together all of SoFi's products and services in a cohesive way and helps our members get their money right every day. As a senior engineer on the Machine Learning squad, you will be core to our vision of leveraging machine learning to power personalized experiences across SoFi.
In this role, you will manage the backend that runs our machine learning models in production. You will write Java based applications that connect model endpoints to feed services . You will integrate monitoring and alerting tools to our ML platform for model explainability and managing data drift. If you like iterating, learning and innovating problems with company wide impact, we would love to have you in our team!
What you’ll do:
- Write applications in Java/Kotlin to power the backend services of our mobile app feed.
- Design and develop microservices that productionize our machine learning models
- Maintain alerting systems for Airflow and Kubernetes clusters that run ETL pipelines.
- Integrate monitoring tools for our ML platform.
- Design robust, maintainable high-performance services with automated tests and alerts
- Write readable, modular code that runs on the cloud
- Lead technical projects to completion and communicate with peers to build requirements and track progress
- Contribute to a team culture that values effective collaboration, technical excellence, and innovation
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field
- 4+ years experience building microservices
- Fluent in object oriented languages
- Comfortable deploying containers to Kubernetes cluster
- Experience developing on Cloud Platform
- Experience working with large SQL databases
- Ability to write solid, readable and testable code
- Good communication skills
Nice to have:
- Experience working with data scientists
- Experience with CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment)
Why you’ll love working here:
- Competitive salary packages and bonuses
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits
- Generous vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) and education on retirement planning
- Tuition reimbursement on approved programs
- Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
- Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
- Employer paid lunch program (except for remote employees)
- Fully stocked kitchen (snacks and drinks)
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