Senior Software Engineer, Loans Platform

Sofi; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SoFi is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle, WA, to lead the development of key advancements for our financial services platform. You will be responsible for building backend services, ensuring code quality, and collaborating closely with various teams. The ideal candidate has a degree in Computer Science or related fields, plus at least 3 years of experience in software engineering.

This role involves creating maintainable solutions and optimizing data access patterns while contributing to the team’s efficiency.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a professional, full-time Software Engineer.
• Proficient coding in Java, Kotlin, or similar programming language.
• Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and Spring Boot.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of backend services for the next-generation Lending Platform.
• Translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Implement new capabilities, ensuring code quality for scalable services.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

GIT

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Spring Boot

Object-oriented programming

Cloud services

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

CI/CD systems

Relational databases

Document databases

Job description

The Role

Join us in revolutionizing the lending landscape. SoFi is seeking enthusiastic Senior Software Engineers who are ready to lead the development of key advancements to the next generation of our financial services platform. Key qualifications of this role include:

• 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.

What You’ll Do

As an emerging leader within our team, you will focus on building out the backend services for our next-generation Lending Platform. This role involves full product lifecycle engagement, from initial concept to deployment. Key responsibilities include implementing new capabilities, ensuring code quality, and delivering highly-available, scalable services. Success requires close technical collaboration with Product, Marketing, Operations, Business, Legal, and Compliance teams. You will be responsible for translating business requirements from these stakeholders into effective technical solutions that provide outstanding value to our members.

What You’ll Need

• 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.

Nice To Have

• 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 performance tuning and optimizing data access patterns.

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 Rights

SoFi is committed to an inclusive culture. 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 [e-mail].

Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.