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Who we are:
Shape a brighter financial future with us.
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
*There will be a strong preference for candidates in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area for this role*
Who we are
SoFi is a digital personal finance company whose mission is to help its members achieve financial independence to realize their ambitions, whether that be to buy a house one day, start a family on their own terms or be debt free. We aim to be at the center of our members’ financial lives, and to help every member Get Their Money Right®. By joining SoFi, you’ll become part of a forward-thinking company that is transforming financial services by embracing technology to build innovative loan products, investment tools, and more. One of the fastest growing fintech companies, we’ve grown from 250 employees in 2015 to over 3,000 employees today, with over 5 million members. With offices across the US, we offer the excitement of a rapidly growing startup with the stability of a seasoned management team and some of the best talent around. As an employer, we strive to hire employees who are committed to both our company’s mission and our desire to build the best culture in the world. If you are driven, passionate about what you do, and excited about the SoFi mission, we would love to hear from you.
About the Team:
Our team is strategically positioned to empower college students at all stages of their academic career by providing essential private student loan solutions. You will be at the heart of our technology efforts. You will implement and test product hypotheses through new functionality, resolve bugs, maintain the health of our codebase, improve our technical capabilities, and continuously grow as an engineer. You will work closely with product, design, marketing, pricing, data science, and risk analytics to deliver solutions that position us as market leaders in decision-making and speed.
The Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Software Engineer to join our Private Student Loans team. In this role, you will help build cutting-edge technology systems that support our lending business. You will collaborate with a team of engineers empowered to make technical decisions that directly impact the success of the business and our SoFi members.
What You’ll Do:
Lead the development and testing of system components/services, code and design reviews
Own and develop technical solutions for new product requirements.
Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment.
Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies.
Drive operational excellence in our business processes to enhance service quality.
Collaborate with business stakeholders, product management, operations, and peer technical teams to deliver impactful products.
Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
What You’ll Need:
Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field
8+ years of programming experience, ideally on a modern microservice stack.
Strong experience with modern Java frameworks(e.g: Spring Boot), GraphQL, REST APIs, and relational databases.
Strong sense of accountability, code quality and testing, and ownership; capable of driving a project from inception to completion
Mentor junior developers.
Experience working in a team coding environment, refining designs together, iterating on ideas, participating in code reviews, and managing pull requests.
Understanding of operation excellence and its importance. Has experience in various monitoring tools such as DataDog
Expert in programming skills with solid fundamentals.
Effective communication skills.
Desire to grow, learn, and collaborate with a team of engineers.
Nice to Have:
Experience with ReactJS, NextJS, Typescript, CSS, XState, StyleX, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC, cloud infrastructure, Terraform, and CI/CD.
Fintech, finance, or lending industry experience.
Experience with safe deployment practices.
