Staff Software Engineer Money

The role

We are seeking a backendfocused Staff Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in our Money product architecture transformation focusing on the evolution of our banking core and the implementation of enhanced account structures including readiness for new products like CDs. This position involves maturing our central memberfacing services particularly in areas such as entitlements permissions and data management which are critical to supporting integrated product offerings like SoFi Plus. Youll be working within a highly collaborative environment where planning and executing through a unified campaign lens is essential due to the complexity and interdependencies of these initiatives.

As a SoFi staff software engineer youll be in the middle of it all acting as a leader and force multiplier youll work with stakeholders to implement functionality architect our systems squash bugs and continually grow as an engineer. The ideal candidate is both forwardthinking and handson has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery and is a good mentor and coworker. At SoFi we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product Design and Engineering so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle from ideation through building deploying and continual improvement and evolution and youll be working with an allstar team of talented engineers.

What youll do:

• Full development lifecycle design from project requirement to deployment.

• Work on automation and improvement of data exchanges and data pipelines between internal and external teams.

• Facilitate the definition of project scope deliverables and goals.

• Lead crossfunctional delivery teams to ensure deliverables are met.

• Track project performance against defined milestones/goals.

• Conduct process improvement projects to increase performance in vital program metrics.

• Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leadership

• Maintain strict compliance with established project management policies and guidelines.

• Take initiative and produce timely results in a fastpaced and sometimes ambiguous environment.

• Make significant contributions to the code base.

• Define best practices and uphold coding standards.

• Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge ingenuity and creativity. Develops and applies advanced technologies engineering principles theories and concepts. Broad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialty.

• Work within the Engineering team to develop features that specifically benefit our users.

• Must be able to deliver highquality code on schedule and communicate with groups in and outside the development team.

What youll need:

• Bachelors Degree Computer Science Degree or equivalent from a fullyaccredited college or university

• 6 years of Java programming experience

• Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / PostgreSQL/ React and we run on Kubernetes in a serviceoriented architecture with over 100 services in production

• 2 years Java Kotlin or Scala programming experience

• A proven understanding of relational databases and ORMs

• Experience working on a SOA or microservicebased application.

• Willingness to roll up your sleeves collaborate with others and get stuff done

• Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion

• Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features not polishing perfect code or architecture

• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment refining designs together working through code reviews and managing pull requests

Nice to have:

• Interest in personal finance

• Experience managing your own investments or experience taking out loans

• Experience scaling highly available missioncritical systems

• Fullstack experience either toward systems (Kafka docker posix) databases (postgres) or frontend (javascript/typescript react)

Required Experience:

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