Software Engineer, Big Data Infrastructure

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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

SoFi runs on data! In this role you will be contributing to the long-term success of SoFi's big data vision by building out distributed systems and scalable data platforms. The Big Data Infrastructure team supports data use cases across all of SoFi's diverse business units by providing an infinitely scalable, democratized data platform empowering teams to ingest, model, and consume data with confidence. Join the Big Data Infrastructure team as it refines this vision and establishes industry-leading standards for data lifecycle management ushering in best-in-class architectural components and processes in extracting value from disparate data sources. The success of this team is central to the success of the company and your contributions will have a very visible and lasting impact.

As an engineer on the Big Data Infrastructure team at SoFi, you'll be tasked with building critical components and features. You will implement battle-tested patterns and interfaces, squash bugs, refactor code and continually grow as an engineer. The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering background and problem-solving ability. You will expand your cloud computing (AWS) and data engineering skill set by directly working with technologies such as Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka, Spark, Dask, Python, and Tableau. Additionally, you will demonstrate SoFi's core values by honing your skills as an effective communicator, showing personal responsibility, and setting ambitious goals. If you like working on problems with tangible and lasting impact, we would love to have you in our team!

What You'll Do

• Directly contribute to high-performance batch and stream data processing systems
• Manage and evolve cloud-based data warehousing services
• Work with amazing product and business managers to deliver compelling features
• Partner with team members to implement and design interfaces and abstractions to the SoFi Data Platform
• Create and support systems and processes used for machine learning and data science
• Sharpen your skills as a developer and build technical domain knowledge on data infrastructure modernization
  

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree, ideally in a technical field
• 2+ years experience as a software Engineer
• Intellectual curiosity and aptitude to pick up new technical skills
• Skilled at reading and understanding technical documentation
• Ability to focus on tasks and drive work to completion
• A passion and instinct for data quality
• Ability to influence outcomes and discuss technical challenges with team members
• Strong fundamentals of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Software development experience in Java, C/C++, or C#
• Experience building solutions using public clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Proficiency with SQL and strong Python development skills
• Familiarity with big data platforms and tooling (AWS, Snowflake, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Airflow, dbt, Dask, etc).
  

Nice To Have

• Prior experience with CI/CD (gradle, git, automated testing and deployments)
• Data exploration and analysis experience using SQL/Python/R/Tableau. Experience surfacing insights using math/statistics/ML techniques
• Passion and curiosity for FinTech
  

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.