About the position
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team who will help build a cutting-edge technology platform for the Underwriting system which is at the heart of our lending and credit card products. You will be part of a team that is empowered to make technical decisions. 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. We interact heavily with pricing, data science, and risk analytics to deliver solutions which allow us to lead the market in making decisions and moving quickly. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker. At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying, continual improvement and evolution. You'll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way, as well as using your areas of expertise to grow the capabilities of the rest of the team.
Responsibilities
- Architecting, designing, and delivering scalable, highly-available services
- Owning and ideating on technical solutions for new product requirements
- Participating heavily in code and design reviews
- Generating ideas for new initiatives and technologies
- Becoming a domain expert within the Underwriting and Loans business
- Collaborating and representing engineering with outside stakeholders in product marketing, business, operations, legal, and compliance
- Working in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment across multiple offices
- Mentoring other members of the team and helping foster a learning environment within the team
Requirements
- 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
- 5+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern, microservice stack
- Our core stack is Kotlin / Java / Spring / PostgreSQL / AWS
- Ability to work proficiently in different languages (e.g. - Kotlin, Java, Python) and different frameworks (e.g. - Spring Boot, GraphQL, jOOQ)
- Expertise with any REST APIs and relational databases is a great start
- Understanding of SQL and NoSQL database principles
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Strong sense of accountability and ownership; driving a project from inception to completion
- Affinity for solving problems and deep-diving into the technically-heavy topics
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
- Passionate about broadening your technical skill set, trying out new ideas, and teaching others.
Nice-to-haves
- Good exposure and hands on experience with Microservices design principles and architecture
- Experience in the financial services industry, especially interaction with underwriting, pricing and/or risk.
- Experience with cloud native services, especially AWS services such as DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, and/or SQS
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Temporal, Spring Boot, Terraform, and CI/CD
- Experience solving data-heavy problems such as designing/building a data pipeline
- Machine learning and data analytics experience
- Front-End experience with Javascript, React, and/or Flutter
Benefits
- Base pay range: $128,000.00 - $240,000.00
- Eligible for a bonus and long term incentives
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits
