Senior Staff Software Engineer, Member
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Job Description
The role
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer with a natural inclination to solve complex problems. You will play a pivotal role in the design and implementation of systems that power our home screen and other core experiences!!
This role requires a deep expertise in building distributed systems strong leadership in cross-functional environments and a strategic ability to align engineering initiatives with business objectives.
As a Senior Staff Engineer youll be in the middle of it all. Youll work across functional and organizational boundaries to ship new features improve our system architecture squash bugs and hone your technical skills. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on has a strong sense of ownership and delivery and is a good mentor and co-worker.
At SoFi collaboration between Product Design and Engineering is key. Youll be involved throughout the entire product lifecycle from ideation to deployment iteration and beyond working alongside an all-star team of talented engineers.
What youll do:
- Produce well-designed scalable and reusable code on schedule
- Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
- Drive technical architecture design decisions and cross-functional discussions for the product
- Lead the design development and testing of systems that impact multiple teams
- Lead code and system design reviews
- Collaborate across functions and teams to reduce ambiguity and keep projects on track
- Track project performance against defined milestones/goals
- Mentor other engineers support the technical culture and help grow the team
- Create and improve technical documentation
What youll need:
- Bachelors degree (ideally in a technical field) but we understand great engineers come from a variety of backgrounds; we will also consider relevant work experience
- 10 years programming experience ideally on a modern stack
- Our core stack is Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production
- You should have 5 years Java or Kotlin programming experience
- You should have a strong understanding of relational databases
- You should have worked on a SOA or microservice-based application
- Experience working with asynchronous systems and event based systems (queues streams)
- Pragmatic approach towards handling tech debt versus shipping new features
Nice to have:
- Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLM) into products
- Experience scaling highly available mission critical systems
- Full-stack experience across backend and frontend
- History of building digital products in the financial space
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
