About the position
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Chat engineering team at SoFi. This team will play a pivotal role in supporting our members' financial journeys by developing an intelligent, conversational AI-powered chat interface. This system will help streamline support queries from members and provide personalized financial insights and guidance. Chat is a critical component of how members interact with SoFi and building it will require a thoughtful approach to UI and product experience. The ideal candidate is collaborative, product-minded, and pragmatic, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for the quality of both the code and finished product. 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 and continual improvement and evolution. We also pride ourselves on a philosophy of continuous learning, and you should likewise be committed to furthering your own career growth as well as to providing mentorship for your fellow team members.
Responsibilities
- Development, testing and deployment of software systems
- Actively participate in reviews to ensure code quality, efficiency, and adherence to best practices
- Execute on well defined technical tasks and user stories with high quality in a timely manner
- Help translate product requirements into technical solutions
- Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers
- Adapt existing practices, processes and frameworks to deliver tasks
- Collaborate with peers as well as cross functional teams to coordinate and deliver projects
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
- 2+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
- 1+ years Java or Kotlin programming experience
- Basic understanding of relational databases
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working with asynchronous systems and event based systems (queues, streams)
- Experience working with SQL databases
- Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems
- Full-stack experience across Backend and Front-end (javascript/typescript, react)
- Working on LLM based applications
Benefits
- Base pay range: $105,600.00 - $198,000.00
- Eligible for a bonus
- Long term incentives
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits
