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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 are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with a natural inclination to solve complex problems. You will play a pivotal role in the design and implementation of systems that power our home screen and other core experiences! This role requires a deep expertise in building distributed systems, leadership in cross-functional environments, and a strategic ability to align engineering initiatives with business objectives.
As a Staff Engineer, you’ll be in the middle of it all. You’ll work across functional and organizational boundaries to ship new features, improve our system architecture, squash bugs, and hone your technical skills. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker.
At SoFi, collaboration between Product, Design, and Engineering is key. You’ll be involved throughout the entire product lifecycle – from ideation to deployment, iteration, and beyond – working alongside an all-star team of talented engineers.
What you’ll do:- Produce well-designed, scalable, and reusable code on schedule
- Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
- Drive technical architecture, design decisions and cross-functional discussions for the product
- Develop and improve systems that impact multiple teams
- Collaborate across functions and teams to reduce ambiguity and keep projects on track
- Track project performance against defined milestones/goals
- Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
- Create and improve technical documentation
- Bachelor’s degree (ideally in a technical field), but we understand great engineers come from a variety of backgrounds; we will also consider relevant work experience
- 8+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
- Our core stack is Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL, and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production
- You should have 3+ years Java or Kotlin programming experience
- You should have a strong understanding of relational databases
- You should have worked on a SOA or microservice-based application
- Experience working with asynchronous systems and event based systems (queues, streams)
- Pragmatic approach towards handling tech debt versus shipping new features
- Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLM) into products
- Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems
- Full-stack experience across backend and frontend
- History of building digital products in the financial space
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What We Do
SoFi wasn’t built to be a bank. Or a technology company. We were built for one mission: help people achieve financial independence so they can realize their ambitions.
Redefining an entire industry isn’t easy work—and it’s not for the faint of heart. It takes a certain kind of team. People with diverse perspectives and expertise, united by a common sense of purpose. People willing to challenge assumptions but always do the right thing. People proving that innovation and responsibility don’t have to compete, but can come together to create something truly unconventional in the world.
For the last eight years, we’ve been charting this new path forward. We call it The SoFi Way.
At SoFi, we don’t just talk about culture: we live it. The SoFi Way is how we show up every day, how we make decisions, and how we build for our members, clients, and each other.
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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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
For the majority of our workforce who work on a hybrid schedule, the in-office requirement is a handful of days per month!
