Staff Backend Developer, Money

Social Finance - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Seattle, WA

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About the position

The Staff 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 and supporting integrated product offerings. The engineer will work collaboratively with various stakeholders, leading cross-functional teams to ensure project deliverables are met while maintaining high coding standards and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Full development life-cycle design from project requirement to deployment.
• Work on automation and improvement of data exchanges and data pipelines between internal and external teams.
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, deliverables, and goals.
• Lead cross-functional delivery teams to ensure deliverables are met.
• Track project performance against defined milestones/goals.
• Conduct process improvement projects to increase performance in vital program metrics.
• Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leadership.
• Maintain strict compliance with established project management policies and guidelines.
• Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Make significant contributions to the code base.
• Define best practices and uphold coding standards.
• Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity.
• Develop and apply advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories, and concepts.
• Work within the Engineering team to develop features that specifically benefit users.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a fully-accredited college or university.
• 6+ years of Java programming experience.
• 2+ years of Java, Kotlin, or Scala programming experience.
• Proven understanding of relational databases and ORMs.
• Experience working on a SOA or microservice-based application.
• Knowledgeable with modern mobile design patterns.
• Good fundamentals in web protocols.
• Familiarity with mobile-web best practices.
• Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion.
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Good knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD).
• Knowledge in analytics, metrics, and monitoring integrations.
• Test-driven development along with unit and integration testing.
• Knowledge of and contributions to mobile open source frameworks.
• Full-stack experience, particularly in front-end technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, React).
• Familiarity with responsive design/development and mobile-web best practices.

Benefits

• Competitive salary packages and bonuses
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits
• Generous vacation and holidays
• Paid parental leave for eligible employees
• 401(k) and education on retirement planning
• Tuition reimbursement on approved programs
• Monthly contribution up to $200 to help pay off student loans
• Great health & well-being benefits including telehealth parental support and subsidized gym program
• Fully stocked kitchen with snacks and drinks