Senior Software Engineer, Loans Platform

SoFi is a next-generation financial services company and national bank focused on changing the way people interact with personal finance. The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of key advancements for the Lending Platform, focusing on building backend services, ensuring code quality, and collaborating closely with various teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Leading the technical evolution of one or more key platform subsystems
• Resolving problems in the platform design and implementation that weren’t 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
• Implementing new capabilities, ensuring code quality, and delivering highly-available, scalable services

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's 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
• 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 workflow orchestration technology (AWS step function, Temporal)