Senior Software Engineer, SoFi
Builder Tools
$128-240k
+Bonus & long term incentives
Mobile & online personal finance services
Open for applications
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$128-240k
+Bonus & long term incentives
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Test Platform team
- If you are a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with a passion for enabling developers to build reliable services, and a strong background in distributed systems, we invite you to apply for this exciting and new opportunity
- Experience - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience developing in a cloud environment (AWS), using containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Envoy)
- Design - Strong understanding of software design principles, and distributed systems architecture
- Coding Skills - Proven programming skills (Java, Kotlin, Python, Go) in developing enterprise scale systems
- Expertise - Expertise in automated testing strategies, testing in production, test tenancy, API mocking, traffic capture, routing and playback technologies
- Problem Solving - Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically about the Testing and Reliability domains
- Project Ownership - Ability to manage and deliver projects from scoping through launch
- Communication - Effective communication and collaboration, and proven skills to operate effectively in a cross-functional team
Desirable
- Experience with load testing (e.g., Locust, Artillery), E2E testing (e.g., Cypress), failure injection and chaos testing (Gremlin, AWS FIS) technologies
- Experience with monitoring and logging (e.g. Datadog, Elastic, Splunk)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Argo, GitLab CI/CD)
- Experience with security and compliance requirements in cloud environments
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Test Platform team
- In this role, you will have the opportunity to directly impact the design and architecture of our Developer Platform and tooling that enables SoFi engineers to create and deliver high-quality solutions
- You will collaborate and partner with a curious team of engineers to design and deliver solutions that raise the testing and reliability standards for our backend and web applications
- Design, develop, and maintain software and systems that enable engineers to test backend and web applications, and deliver reliable solutions
- Work closely with product engineering teams to understand requirements and design elegant platform solutions that are scalable, reliable and efficient
- Provide technical leadership for initiatives in the Testing and Reliability domains
- Design and implement solutions that accelerate integration, load, performance and chaos testing practices, and impact overall service reliability
- Deliver software solutions that enable engineers to seamlessly test and operate backend systems in a cloud, containerized and CI/CD environment
- Research and prototype AI solutions to enhance developer productivity
- Lead code reviews, refactoring and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Promote best practices to improve code health, testing and software maintainability
Our take
SoFi started by offering ways for students to secure better financial terms on their loans, and now offers a huge range of personal finance products, including bank accounts, loans, mortgages, investment advice, and investment opportunities. Many customers find they have to go to multiple financial service providers to meet all their finance needs, but SoFi overcomes this issue by putting it all in one place.
Its goal, to cover all the financial bases, sets them apart from many of the traditional banks and even some of their digital competitors, such as Avant, which has chosen to focus on providing credit alternatives. Although it is operating in a competitive market with a lot of big players such as Monzo, Revolut, and Starling, the company has managed to raise huge amounts of funding to support its rapid expansion.
SoFi has focussed on global expansion, moving outside the US, and has made a series of acquisitions to support this - including a Hong Kong-based investment app called 8 Securities. After going public on the New York Stock Exchange via a SPAC merger in June 2021, the company has continued to evolve and release more mission-oriented services into its roster, and strengthened its lending capabilities through a $350 million post-IPO loan. To date, the company has sold over $15 billion in personal loan collateral and continues to strengthen its offering.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$369.9m
LATE VC
May 2019
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $2.7bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Generous vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) and education on retirement planning
- Tuition reimbursement on approved programs, up to $5,250 per year
- Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
- Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
- Flexible time off
- Fertility and family planning options
- Free financial classes
Company values
- Put our member's interests first – if we take care of our members' interests, it will best serve our interests.
- Run after problems – we must build a culture of people who run after problems in order to ensure we execute with excellence and “things” do not fall through the cracks.
- Embrace diversity, everyone should feel welcome, included and able to contribute – diversity is a differentiator and our team should reflect society. We should continue to encourage and celebrate diversity.
- Get to the truth and make principle-based decisions – we can only make the best decisions if we have the right data, all of the perspectives, and if we align on the guiding principles.
- Make your footprint bigger than your foot – selfless acts are critical to elevate beyond the impact of our collective individual efforts.
- Do the right thing, if you're not sure, do the harder thing – our business is built on trust and integrity, which requires both adhering to the letter of the law and regulations and doing the right thing for the company and our members..
- Set ambitious goals, be gritty, be accountable - we must hold ourselves and others accountable for delivering our business objectives, for our culture, and for our member.
- Take care of other people and help them grow - our people are our greatest differentiator, if we take care of our people, they will take care of our members.
- Iterate, learn, innovate - we are all responsible for innovation and we must embrace data-driven decisions.
- Be SoFi missionaries - our products, our services, our brand, and our business must be durable over the long term to achieve our mission—be a missionary.
- Don’t forget to smile - our ambition is contagious: it makes us smile to see people inside and outside of SoFi succeed.
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Anthony Noto
(CEO)Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy after being a telecommunications officer and captain in the U.S. Army. Has worked as Head of Gobal Telecommunications, Media and Technology at Goldman Sachs, been the COO of Twitter, and also the CFO of the National Football League.
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