Senior Software Engineer, Loans Originations

The Role

Join us in revolutionizing the lending landscape. SoFi is seeking enthusiastic Senior Software Engineers who are ready to lead the development of key advancement to the next generation of our financial services platform. Key qualifications of this role include:

• Leading the technical evolution of one or more key platform subsystems.

• Resolving problems in the platform design and implementation that werent clearly anticipated taking requirements with ambiguity and proposing durable technical solutions.

• Expertly leverage existing solution patterns and understand when to differentiate resulting in well-structured maintainable code.

• Ability to understand data models APIs scaling concerns and failure modes in order to make effective trade-offs between maintainability and performance.

• Creating stability by writing meaningful tests considering observability and leveraging your ability to debug complex issues across multiple system layers.

• The ability to create clear design and operational documentation.

• Contributes to code reviews is a role model for more junior engineers and contributes to team efficiency beyond personal output.

What Youll Do

As an emerging leader within our team you will focus on building out the features capabilities and member experiences for our market-leading loan products. This role involves full product lifecycle engagement from initial concept to deployment. Key responsibilities include implementing new capabilities ensuring code quality and delivering highly-available scalable services. Success requires close technical collaboration with Product Marketing Operations Business Legal and Compliance teams. You will be responsible for translating business requirements from these stakeholders into effective technical solutions that provide outstanding value to our members.

What Youll Need

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

• 3 years as a professional full-time Software Engineer or similar relevant work experience.

• Proficient coding in Java Kotlin or other similar object-oriented programming language.

• Proficient working with GIT and related CI/CD systems.

• Experience with public cloud compute storage and infrastructure.

• Experience with Kafka Docker Kubernetes and Spring Boot or similar frameworks.

• Deep understanding of relational and document database fundamentals.

• Deep understanding of fundamental distributed systems concepts.
  
  

Nice To Have

• Full-Stack experience in both back-end (Kafka Redis Docker) and front-end (JavaScript TypeScript React).

• Experience with microservices design principles and architecture.

• Experience with performance tuning and optimizing data access patterns.

Required Experience:

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