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Staff Software Engineer, Relay

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The Staff Software Engineer will lead architecture and design for personal finance products, mentor engineers, and ensure scalable service delivery while collaborating cross-functionally.
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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.

Seattle WA - onsite 1x per week * 

The role:

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Relay engineering team at SoFi, where we are designing for the future of personal finance. Today we are helping millions of customers find their path to financial independence by providing them with the tools, resources, and guidance they need to get there. Next up, our team’s objective is to provide personalized financial insights to our customers. To do this we will be building systems that ingest and learn from billions of financial data points to generate actionable next steps for our customers in their financial journey.

The ideal candidate is collaborative, product-minded, and pragmatic, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for the quality of both the code and finished product. 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.  We also pride ourselves on a philosophy of continuous learning, and you should likewise be committed to furthering your own career growth as well as to providing mentorship for your fellow team members. 

What you’ll do:

  • Drive technical architecture, design decisions and cross-functional discussions for the product
  • Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
  • Lead the design, development and testing of systems
  • Lead code and system design reviews
  • Translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions
  • Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
  • Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
  • Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers
  • Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity. Develop and apply advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories, and concepts. Broad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialty
  • Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment

What you’ll need:

  • Bachelor’s Degree, ideally in a technical field, but we understand great engineers come from all sorts of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience
  • 6+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern tech stack
  • Our core stack is Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL. We run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production. 
    • You should have 4+ years Java or Kotlin programming experience 
    • You should have a strong understanding of relational databases and ORMs
    • You should have worked on a SOA or microservice-based application.
  • Experience working with asynchronous systems and event based systems (queues, streams)
  • Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
  • Strong sense of ownership; 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:

  • Interest and experience in personal finance
  • Experience building highly available, mission critical systems
  • Full-stack experience, either toward systems (kafka, docker, posix), databases (postgres), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)
  • Experience building data insight products

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location. 

 

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!

SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.New York applicants: Notice of Employee RightsSoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [email protected].Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.

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Top Skills

Asynchronous Systems
Docker
Event Based Systems
Java
JavaScript
Kafka
Kotlin
Kubernetes
Postgres
React
Spring
Typescript

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