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Job Description
The role
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the team that delivers every day consumer financial products & services to help people Get Their Money Right. In this role you will lead ambiguous & complex work across multiple teams divisions and organizations as the most senior technical contributor. Your responsibility will include mentorship for engineers leadership in shaping standards for technical design and hiring practices and operational excellence.
The ideal candidate is both forwardthinking and handson has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery. This role is inherently crossfunctional and you will work closely with engineering product marketing risk compliance data science operations legal and executive teams to set forth a strategy define and prioritize a vision. Youll play the critical role of bridging the technical and business worlds to deliver solutions that enable our engineers to get things done while driving our business forward while also bridging engineering systems across products and teams in shaping the broader technical architecture. Youll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical product and operational shaping your personal growth and career along the way.
What youll do:
Deliver high quality designs and code at scale that benefit our users while communicating with groups in and outside our engineering teams.
Make significant contributions to the technical architecture of the various products and systems.
Generate ideas for new businessimpacting initiatives and ways of leveraging technology in the pursuit of our goals.
Advocate for engineering best practices and drive rigorous hiring and coding standards and overall raise the bar on technical excellence.
Develop apply and socialize advanced technologies engineering principles theories and concepts.
Work across teams at SoFi to help develop & enhance products and systems. This role offers a unique chance to touch virtually every feature in SoFis digital touchpoints.
Provide technical mentorship to engineers.
Lead & present in broad forums with senior technical leaders across the company.
What youll need:
10 years programming experience with significant experience in a JVMbased language and familiarity with Spring.
Expert understanding and handson experience building and operating largescale faulttolerant distributed systems workflows databases and mobile/web applications
Deep understanding of code release deployment orchestration / rollout mechanisms logging instrumentation monitoring and alerting in a microservices environment.
Experience with public cloud infrastructure
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Who you are:
You demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge ingenuity and creativity.
You are customerobsessed and have an affinity for solving complex problems and shipping impactful features and make pragmatic high judgment decisions without letting perfection become the enemy of progress.
You work and play well with others; SoFi is a highly collaborative workplace and a melting pot of diverse talent.
You are confident in asking difficult questions and challenging your team while also keenly listening and taking feedback.
You are a voracious learner you have the ability to quickly and independently acquire proficiency in new languages and technologies.
You value mentorship and constantly look for ways to improve the technical depth of the individuals on your teams.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
