Staff Software Engineer, Money and Bank

The Role:

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the transformation of our Money and Bank product architecture and payments this role you will focus on evolving our banking core and building core rails to enable money transfers from SoFi products to external financial institutions. As a member of the bank platform team you will play a critical role in providing transfer capabilities that power multiple products across the company creating broad company-wide impact. Success in this role requires collaborating across teams in a highly cross-functional environment and planning and executing with a unified campaign mindset to navigate the complexity and interdependencies of these initiatives.

As a SoFi staff software engineer youll be in the middle of it all acting as a leader and force multiplier youll work with stakeholders to implement functionality architect our systems squash bugs and continually grow as an engineer. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery and is a good mentor and co-worker. At SoFi we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle from ideation through building deploying and continual improvement and evolution - and youll be working with an all-star team of talented engineers.

What Youll Do:

• Full development life-cycle design from project requirement to deployment.
• Facilitate the definition of project scope deliverables and goals.
• Lead cross-functional delivery teams to ensure deliverables are met.
• Track project performance against defined milestones/goals.
• Conduct process improvement projects to increase performance in vital program metrics.
• Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leadership
• Maintain strict compliance with established project management policies and guidelines.
• Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Make significant contributions to the code base.
• Define best practices and uphold coding standards.
• 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.
• Work within the Engineering team to develop features that specifically benefit our users.
• Must be able to deliver high-quality code on schedule communicate with groups in and outside the development team.

What Youll Need:

• Bachelors Degree Computer Science Degree or equivalent from a fully-accredited college or university
• 6 years Java programming experience
• Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / PostgreSQL/ React and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production
• 2 years Java Kotlin or Scala programming experience
• A proven understanding of relational databases and ORMs
• Experience working on a SOA or microservice-based application.
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves collaborate with others and get stuff done
• Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
• Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features not polishing perfect code or architecture
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment refining designs together working through code reviews and managing pull requests

Nice to Have:

• Good knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
• Knowledge in analytics metrics and monitoring integrations
• Test-driven development along with unit and integration testing.

Required Experience:

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