Senior Software Engineer, Bank
SoFi
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The role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the SoFi Bank engineering team, who will help build the Commercial Payments platform. This is a newly incubated product and you will be part of a team that has the opportunity to build the product ground-up, shape the technical roadmap, and contribute & learn the payments & bank sponsorship domain.
As a member of the Bank team, you will architect new systems, implement functionality, fix bugs, maintain the health of our systems, and continually grow your skill set. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a solid sense of ownership and drive for delivery, and is a strong team player. 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.
What you’ll do:
- 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
- Communicate with project leads, product managers, and other software developers
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 7+ years of programming experience & designing for consumer-facing applications with stringent scalability/uptime requirements
- 4+ years in Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / AWS / Kubernetes
- Experience with Temporal / Kafka and DynamoDB database
- Experience working on SOA / microservice-based applications.
- Experience working with GIT and CI/CD systems.
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews, and managing pull requests
- Experience scaling highly available, mission-critical systems
- A solid understanding of relational databases and ORMs
- View Unit and Integration test as 1st class citizens in software development
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others, and get stuff done
- Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
- Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features, not polishing perfect code or architecture
Nice to have:
- Fintech, payments, banking experience