Staff Software Engineer, Loans Platform

Sofi; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

SoFi is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle to lead the design and implementation of key capabilities for our financial services platform. You will be responsible for back-end service development, driving technical excellence, and collaborating cross-functionally with various stakeholders.

This role requires a Bachelor’s degree, extensive software engineering experience, and proven leadership abilities, with a focus on cloud services and microservices design principles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a professional Software Engineer or relevant experience.
• 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Deep understanding of relational and document database fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services for the Lending Platform.
• Lead by example to improve engineering excellence.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Marketing, and Compliance teams.

Skills

Proficient coding in Java, Kotlin, or similar languages

Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes

Deep understanding of microservices design principles

Experience with public cloud services

Strong collaboration skills

Education

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

Tools

GIT and CI/CD systems

AWS technologies

Job description

The Role

Join us in revolutionizing the lending landscape. SoFi is seeking enthusiastic Staff Software Engineers who are ready to lead the design and implementation of key capabilities of the next generation of our financial services platform in support of our goals that put our members in control of their financial destiny.

• Leading design and implementation efforts across multiple system domains to affect cross-team outcomes.
• Resolving problems in the platform design and implementation where there are competing constraints and significant ambiguity.
• Recognition as a subject matter expert across platform systems with the ability to contribute to the resolution of systemic issues.
• Ability to define the architectural direction and evolutionary strategy for critical subsystems within the platform.
• Ability to drive alignment across teams resolving technical and organizational conflicts.
• Raises the engineering maturity of the organization by consistently upholding the org-wide quality, reliability, and security policies.
• Ability to align technology decisions with company strategy, accounting for risk and growth constraints.
• Maintains standards of excellence through code and design reviews, mentors more junior engineers, and contributes to team efficiency, beyond personal output.
• Is a key participant in recruiting processes.

What You’ll Do

As an established technical leader within our team, you will focus on designing and implementing the backend services for our next-generation Lending Platform. This role involves full product lifecycle engagement, from initial concept to production deployment. Your responsibilities include creating durable designs, strong individual contributions in implementing new capabilities, and leading by example to improve engineering excellence and efficiency across the team. Success in the role will require close technical collaboration with Product, Marketing, Operations, Business, Legal, and Compliance teams. You will be a key stakeholder in those partnerships, responsible for driving alignment and delivering 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
• 5+ years as a professional, full-time Software Engineer, or similar relevant work experience.
• 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Proficient coding in Java, Kotlin, or other similar object-oriented programming language.
• 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.
• Deep understanding of microservices design principles and architecture.
• Experience with performance tuning and optimizing data access patterns.
• Proficient working with GIT and related CI/CD systems.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Ability to produce clear and meaningful design and operational documentation artifacts.

Nice To Have

• Experience scaling highly-available, mission-critical systems.
• Experience with AWS technologies – DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, S3, and Athena.
• Full-stack engineering experience, or willingness to expand your influence across our entire platform.

We're driven to push boundaries and deliver exceptional products to help our members achieve financial stability. If you have the passion and a commitment to customer success, we want to hear from you.

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 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.