About the position
We are looking for a Senior 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, strong leadership in cross-functional environments, and a strategic ability to align engineering initiatives with business objectives. As a Senior 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.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Lead the design, development and testing of systems that impact multiple teams
- Lead code and system design reviews
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- 10+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
- 5+ years Java or Kotlin programming experience
- Strong understanding of relational databases
- Experience working 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
Nice-to-haves
- 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
Benefits
- Base pay range: $172,800.00 - $297,000.00
- Eligible for a bonus
- Long term incentives
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits
