Staff Software Engineer, Lending

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Job description

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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 fintech company using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our 2+ million 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 looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team who will help build a cutting edge technology platform to automate our loan origination process.

On our team, you will be in the middle of it all - implementing new functionality, architecting our system, squashing bugs, maintaining the health of our code, and continually growing as an engineer. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring and supporting mission critical systems. You'll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way.

What You'll Do

• Architecting, designing, and delivering scalable highly-available services and/or creating responsive, performant, and maintainable React-based web apps
• Owning and ideating on technical solutions for complex user stories, often coordinating multiple teams and efforts at once
• Leading code and design reviews
• Deep-diving and proving out new initiatives and technologies
• Influencing the system architecture and platform design for multiple products/verticals
• Becoming domain experts on the Home Loans business and systems
• Collaborating and representing engineering with executive stakeholders in product marketing, operations, business, legal, and compliance
• Working in a fast-moving, highly-collaborative environment across multiple offices
• Mentoring more junior members of the team and helping foster a learning environment within the team
• Driving the team strategy and technical direction, demonstrating efficient solutions and sustainable development practices for the entire team
  

What You'll Need

• 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
• 6+ years programming experience on a modern stack.
• 2+ years as a technical lead
• Our core stack is React / Java / Spring / PostgreSQL. Expertise with multiple modern Javascript frameworks, and/or REST APIs and relational databases is a must.
• Experience with microservice architecture and launching cloud-based services.
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
• Strong sense of responsibility; driving multiple projects from inception to completion
• Affinity for solving problems and diving deep into the details
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
• Expertise with Agile methodologies as well as software testing: unit, integration, and end-to-end
• Deep understanding of scalable and resilient architectures and design patterns
• A passion for pushing CI/CD to its limits
  

Nice To Have

• Full-stack engineering experience, or a willingness and passion to broaden your technical skill set
• Expertise with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, React, AWS, Kotlin.
• Fintech/finance experience
• A passion for well-tested code and utilizing testing frameworks
• GraphQL experience
• Masters' degree in a relevant technical field
• Technical leadership experience
  

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)
• These benefits are only applicable to full time employees
  

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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