Senior Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Enablement

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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 strong Senior Staff Software Engineer for our Engineering Productivity team who is passionate about delivering software that makes other software developers efficient and productive. This is a high impact role to define the basic tools and processes that support developer velocity at SoFi. You will be the technical lead for our Engineer Enablement team building tools and processes to enable our engineers to build better and faster features every day.

From a technical skill set perspective, you must have experience with excellent engineering platforms and how they operate. You must have a great sense for simple, scalable solutions that engineers will love. We are looking for your ability and vision to implement and support solutions for our developers that are highly available and scalable. You will work to better our ability to scale our engineering teams.

What You'll Do

• Lead the development of developer productivity tools and services
• Ensure that our codebase remains easy to change and is always shippable
• Shape the technical architecture of our systems
• Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
• Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
• Communicate and collaborate with product and design
  

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 9+ years years experience in a Software Engineer role or combination of education and experience
• Passion for cloud native technologies, deployment systems built around Kubernetes, CI/CD, and creating self-service platforms enabling engineers to build better and faster features every day.
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
• Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
  

Nice To Have

• Experience with Python, Java, Kotlin, Spring or similar
• Building and scaling microservices at scale
• Familiarity with managing and configuring monitoring tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog and Elasticsearch/ELK
  

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.