Software Engineer, Personal Loans

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Fintech • Mobile • Software • Financial Services
SoFi’s mission is to help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
The Role
The Software Engineer for Personal Loans will develop and maintain the lending platform, working on backend applications using Java and Kotlin, and ensuring scalability and performance. Responsibilities include technical architecture design, onboarding new initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring junior engineers while driving operational excellence.
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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.

We will only consider candidates who are able to work hybrid in our Helena, MT office. We are not offering relocation.

The Role:

Software Engineer, Personal Loans

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Personal Loans team. In this role, you’ll play a key part in building innovative, cutting-edge technology that powers our lending platform and helps drive the future of financial services. You will work closely with a collaborative team of engineers empowered to make technical decisions that directly impact both the success of the business and the experience of our SoFi members.

As a key contributor on our team, you’ll be involved in every stage of the product lifecycle – from ideation and system architecture to implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support of mission-critical systems. You will help solve a variety of technical, product, and operational challenges, providing ample opportunity for personal growth and career development. Additionally, you will mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

The Personal Loans platform plays a critical role in SoFi’s growth, and you’ll have the opportunity to shape its evolution, driving the success of the product while helping to expand our customer base.

What You’ll Do:

  • Utilize object-oriented programming languages to build performant and scalable backend applications within a cloud-based microservice architecture.
  • Shape the technical architecture of our products.
  • Own and develop technical solutions for new product requirements.
  • Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment.
  • Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies.
  • Drive operational excellence in our business processes to enhance service quality.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders, product management, operations, and peer technical teams to deliver impactful products.
  • Mentor team members and foster a learning environment within the team.
  • Work with our core technology stack: Java / Kotlin / React / Microservices / Spring Boot / AWS / Postgres.

What You’ll Need:

  • Bachelor’s Degree with 2+ years of industry experience working with modern technologies on a full-stack team; or a Master’s Degree.
  • Expertise in Java, Kotlin, Spring, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
  • Experience with modern Java frameworks, REST APIs, and relational databases.
  • Strong sense of accountability and ownership; capable of driving a project from inception to completion.
  • Willingness to mentor and collaborate with others.
  • Experience working in a team coding environment, refining designs together, participating in code reviews, and managing requests.
  • Passionate about broadening your technical skill set, experimenting with new ideas, and teaching others.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • Desire to grow, learn, and collaborate with a team of engineers.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience with React / Typescript / GraphQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, cloud infrastructure, Terraform, and CI/CD.
  • Experience with C#, .Net Framework, Windows UI libraries, and/or the Encompass desktop application and its SDK.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native services, especially AWS services such as DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, S3, and Athena.
  • Experience with user-customizable CRM systems, especially Salesforce (flows, SOQL queries, lightning experience, and 3rd party plugins)
  • Fintech, finance, or real estate industry experience.
  • Experience with safe deployment practices.

What We Offer:

  • A collaborative environment where product, design, and engineering work closely together.
  • Opportunities to shape your personal growth and career while expanding the capabilities of the team.
  • The chance to work on a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational.

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 RightsSoFi 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 accommodations@sofi.com.Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.

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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.

Top Skills

AWS
Java
Kotlin
Microservices
Postgres
React
Spring Boot

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
4,500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

For over a decade, SoFi has helped transform the Fintech industry by creating financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better, so they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions. Whether it’s owning a home, saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, or helping our members invest - SoFi is there every step of the way. Want to learn more about how it works? Check it out here: https://www.sofi.com/how-it-works/

Our core values are at the center of how we help our millions of members get their money right. They are our guiding principles for how we think about serving our members, building our company, and most importantly, how we work together. At SoFi, it’s not just what we do - but how we do it.

SoFi is also proud to be the naming rights partner of SoFi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams.

For more information, visit SoFi.com

Why Work With Us

Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation Fintech company using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront.

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For the majority of our workforce who work on a hybrid schedule, the in-office requirement is a handful of days per month!

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