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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 financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of 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 seek a highly skilled and motivated Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack to join our Home Loans team. In this role, you will help build cutting-edge technology systems that support our lending business. You will collaborate with a team of engineers empowered to make technical decisions that directly impact the success of the business and our SoFi members.
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. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting mission-critical systems. 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 helping mold and grow the junior members of the team.
A successful Personal Loans platform is instrumental in the future and success of the company, and you have the opportunity to help shape and guide that future and exponentially grow the customer base of this product.
What You’ll Do:
- Utilize object-oriented programming languages to build performant and scalable backend applications within a cloud-based microservice architecture.
- Shape the technical architecture of our products.
- Own and develop technical solutions for new product requirements.
- Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment.
- Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies.
- Drive operational excellence in our business processes to enhance service quality.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, product management, operations, and peer technical teams to deliver impactful products.
- Mentor team members and foster a learning environment within the team.
- Work with our core technology stack: Java / Kotlin / React / Microservices / Spring Boot / AWS / Postgres.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field.
- 6+ years of programming experience, ideally on a modern microservice stack.
- Expertise in Java, Kotlin, Spring, MongoDB, and AWS.
- Experience with modern Java frameworks, REST APIs, and relational databases.
- Strong sense of accountability and ownership; capable of driving a project from inception to completion.
- Willingness to mentor and collaborate with others.
- Experience working in a team coding environment, refining designs, participating in code reviews, and managing requests.
- Passionate about broadening your technical skill set, experimenting with new ideas, and teaching others.
- Effective communication skills.
- Desire to grow, learn, and collaborate with a team of engineers.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with React / Typescript / GraphQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, cloud infrastructure, Terraform, and CI/CD.
- Experience with C#, .Net Framework, and Windows UI libraries.
- Familiarity with cloud-native services, especially AWS services such as DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, S3, and Athena.
- Fintech, finance, or real estate industry experience.
- Experience with safe deployment practices.
Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.
To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!
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.The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.New York applicants: Notice of Employee RightsSoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [email protected].Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
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For over a decade, SoFi has helped transform the Fintech industry by creating financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better, so they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions. Whether it’s owning a home, saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, or helping our members invest - SoFi is there every step of the way. Want to learn more about how it works? Check it out here: https://www.sofi.com/how-it-works/
Our core values are at the center of how we help our millions of members get their money right. They are our guiding principles for how we think about serving our members, building our company, and most importantly, how we work together. At SoFi, it’s not just what we do - but how we do it.
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Why Work 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 members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront.
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