Staff Software Engineer, SMB

The Role

This role is focused on the Lantern team at SoFi. Our mission is to build and grow a financial marketplace building both a compelling supplier experience for providers of financial products as well as a compelling user experience in suggesting the right financial products for our users. Ideal candidates have a passion for designing beautiful APIs and well architected systems.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Lantern team who will help build our next generation Marketplace platform. The successful candidate will have a strong background in designing developing and maintaining robust back-end systems. As a Senior Back-End Software Engineer you will play a crucial role in ensuring the scalability performance and security of our platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and testing of our systems and services

• Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product

• Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions

• Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment

• Mentor other engineers support the technical culture and help grow the team

• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies

• Drive operational excellence in our business processes to deliver higher service quality

• Communicate with project leads product managers and other software developers
  

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field

• 8 years programming experience ideally on a modern stack.

• Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / AWS/ PostgreSQL and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture.

• 4 years Java Kotlin or other OO programming experience

• A solid understanding of relational databases and ORMs

• Experience working on microservice-based applications.

• Experience working with GIT and CI/CD systems.

• Effective communication skills

• Willingness to roll up your sleeves collaborate with others and get stuff done

• Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion

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

• View Unit and Integration test as 1st class citizen in software development

• Desire to grow learn and collaborate with team of engineers.
  

Nice To Have

• Experience scaling highly available mission critical systems

• Full-stack experience either toward systems (kafka temporal docker) databases (DynamoDB) or front-end (javascript/typescript react)

• Insurance Industry Experience: Familiarity with the insurance industry and its specific regulatory requirements.

Required Experience:

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