Sr Backend Developer, SoFi Money

Social Finance - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Seattle, WA

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

About the position

The Senior Software Engineer will play a crucial role in transforming the Money product architecture at SoFi, focusing on enhancing the banking core and implementing new account structures. This position involves maturing member-facing services, particularly in entitlements, permissions, and data management, to support integrated product offerings. The role requires collaboration with stakeholders to implement functionality, architect systems, and mentor other engineers, all while working in a dynamic and innovative environment.

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
• Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 4+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
• 2+ years Java, Kotlin or Scala programming experience
• Proven understanding of relational databases and ORMs
• Experience working on a SOA or microservice-based application
• 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
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment

Nice-to-haves

• Interest in personal finance
• Experience managing your own investments or experience taking out loans
• Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems
• Full-stack experience, either toward systems (kafka, docker, posix), databases (postgres), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package
• Equal employment opportunities (EEO)
• Reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities