Staff Software Engineer, Money

The Role

Were excited to invite a Staff Software Engineer to join our SoFi Money team! In this role youll play a vital part in supporting the growth of our Money product. Were dedicated to building a platform that allows our teams to scale our customer base while providing exceptional service to our existing members. Our mission is to continuously create tools for our SoFi Money team members ensuring the trust and safety of our members while prioritizing efficiency and operational excellence.

As a SoFi Staff Software Engineer youll be at the heart of everything acting as a leader and a force multiplier. Youll collaborate with stakeholders to implement functionality architect our systems troubleshoot bugs and grow as an engineer. Were looking for someone who is both forward-thinking and hands-on with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for delivering results. Being a good mentor and a supportive co-worker is also key! At SoFi we take pride in the collaboration between Product Design and Engineering so youll be involved in the entire product lifecyclefrom ideation to building deploying and continuously improving. Plus youll be working alongside an all-star team of talented engineers!

What Youll Do:

• Lead the development and testing of our internal money servicing tools and services.

• Oversee the full development life-cycle design from project requirements to deployment.

• Help define project scope deliverables and goals.

• Guide cross-functional delivery teams to ensure we meet our deliverables.

• Monitor project performance against defined milestones and goals.

• Drive process improvement projects to enhance performance in key program metrics.

• Keep key stakeholders and business leadership informed about ongoing project health.

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

• Take initiative and deliver timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.

• Make meaningful contributions to our code base.

• Define best practices and uphold coding standards.

• Consistently demonstrate high levels of technical knowledge creativity and ingenuity. Youll develop and apply advanced technologies engineering principles theories and concepts with a broad understanding of the design and operation of systems beyond your specialty.

• Collaborate with the Engineering team to develop features that specifically benefit our users.

• Deliver high-quality code on schedule and communicate effectively with teams both inside and outside the development group.

What Youll Need:

• A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field from a fully-accredited college or university.

• 6 years of Java programming experience.

• Familiarity with our core stack: Java/Kotlin/Spring/PostgreSQL/React and experience running on Kubernetes in a service-oriented architecture with over 100 services in production.

• A solid understanding of relational databases and ORMs.

• Experience working on a SOA or microservice-based application.

• A willingness to roll up your sleeves collaborate with others and get things done!

• A strong sense of responsibility driving projects from inception to completion.

• A knack for solving problems and shipping impactful features rather than just polishing perfect code or architecture.

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

• Knowledge in analytics metrics and monitoring integrations.

Nice to Have:

• Full-stack experience with backend in Java/Kotlin & front-end (JavaScript/TypeScript React).

• Experience scaling highly available mission-critical systems.

Required Experience:

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