The role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the SoFi Technology team. You will have the opportunity to set technical direction for a growing and critical business function within SoFi where the overall architecture is still relatively greenfield and the business impact is high. This is a great opportunity to help shape the evolution of the team and the platforms capabilities for years to come. The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating userfriendly performant and scalable web applications. As a Senior FrontEnd Engineer you will play a critical role in designing and implementing frontend solutions that enhance the user experience and drive the success of SoFi products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Use React/HTML/CSS/JavaScript to turn designs into performant and maintainable user interfaces
- Lead the development and testing of system components/services code and design reviews
- Manage projects and deliverables and design deploy and improve database solutions.
- Take initiative and produce timely results in a fastpaced and sometimes ambiguous environment
- Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product
- Help translate user stories into technical solutions
- Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
- Mentor other engineers support the technical culture and help grow the team
- Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
- Communicate with project leads product managers and other software developers
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelors 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 related experience or demonstrated equivalent
- Experience with React
- Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling
- Strong knowledge of semantic HTML CSS and JavaScript
- Effective communication skills
- Familiarity with responsive design/development and mobileweb best practices.
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment (and git specifically) refining designs together working through code reviews and managing pull request
Nice To Have
- Fullstack engineering experience or a willingness and passion to broaden your technical skill set
- Expertise with Kafka Docker Kubernetes Spring Boot AWS CI/CD.
- Fintech/finance experience
- Insurance Industry Experience: Familiarity with the insurance industry and its specific regulatory requirements.
Required Experience:
Senior IC