Onsite-Hybrid
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Engineer to join our SAFE team at SoFi. The teams mission is to build and support a suite of Risk decisioning and event detection platforms and services that reduce fraud/risk across all SoFi products empowering the company to proactively detect and fight fraud while safeguarding customer trust.
The team collaborates closely with cross-functional engineering groups and Risk business units to protect SoFi from fraud attacks. By proactively identifying and managing potential risks they help reduce fraud exposure while providing a balanced risk-aware experience for SoFi Members fostering long-term trust and confidence.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our team youll be tasked with building critical components and features. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle from ideation through building testing deploying monitoring and supporting mission-critical systems. The ideal candidate is someone with a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery a hunger for learning and is a good mentor and co-worker.
What youll do:
- Full SDLC: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design architect and implement end-to-end solutions that encompass both front-end and back-end components. Utilize your expertise in various programming languages frameworks and technologies to deliver high-quality and scalable software applications. Partner with senior leaders in the Anti-Money Laundering function to provide consultancy and translate the business needs to design and develop solutions techniques metrics and dashboards for insights and data visualization.
- Back-end Development: Design and develop robust scalable and secure server-side applications and APIs. Work with databases and data models to manage and store information effectively. Build and maintain scalable data pipelines to support efficient data processing and analysis. Optimize performance and maintain system stability.
- Architecture and Design: Participate in architecture discussions and provide valuable insights to drive technical decisions. Ensure that software design patterns and best practices are followed throughout the development process.
- Testing and Quality Assurance: Conduct thorough testing of software components including unit testing integration testing and end-to-end testing to ensure the reliability and functionality of the applications.
- Continuous Improvement: Keep abreast of industry trends best practices and emerging technologies in software development. Advocate for process improvements and adopt new tools and technologies to enhance productivity and efficiency.
- Code Review and Mentorship: Review code contributions from junior developers and provide constructive feedback to promote code quality and maintain coding standards. Act as a mentor and share your knowledge and expertise with team members to foster their growth.
- Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation for developed software APIs and processes to ensure comprehensive understanding and knowledge transfer.
What youll need:
- Bachelors Degree Computer Science Degree or equivalent from a fully-accredited college or university
- 3 years of programming experience ideally on a modern stack.
- Strong expertise in back-end technologies and programming languages such as Java Kotlin Springboot Python C# Kafka PostgreSQL and we run on Kubernetes in a service-oriented architecture with over 100 services in production
- Knowledge of RESTful API design and implementation.
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Strong sense of responsibility and ownership driving a project from inception to completion
- Affinity for solving problems and diving deep into the details
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment refining designs together working through code reviews and managing pull requests
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience working on an SOA or microservice-based application.
Nice to have:
- Experience scaling highly available mission-critical systems
- Test-driven development along with unit and integration testing.
- Front end experience
Required Experience:
Senior IC