Senior Software Engineer, SoFi
Data Services
$128-240k
+ Bonus and long term incentives
Mobile & online personal finance services
Be an early applicant
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$128-240k
+ Bonus and long term incentives
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of software development experience, with a focus on backend development for distributed systems
- Programming Expertise: Proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go)
- Cloud Experience: Hands-on experience developing solutions in cloud environments, particularly AWS
- Automation Skills: Strong ability to automate repetitive tasks and processes using appropriate tools and frameworks
- Observability Tools: Familiarity with monitoring tools like DataDog, Splunk, or CloudWatch
- Version Control & CI/CD: Proficient with Git and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Configuration Management: Experience with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef for managing infrastructure and deployments
- Database Knowledge: Basic understanding of relational database systems and their performance considerations
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate across teams
- Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement
- Innovative Developer: Skilled at building scalable, efficient cloud-based solutions
- Collaborative Team Player: Aligns technical solutions with business goals while fostering teamwork
- Problem Solver: Tackles technical challenges and drives reliability and performance improvements
- Continuous Learner: Stays current with technologies and brings fresh ideas to the team
- Mentor: Shares expertise to support peers and nurture a collaborative culture
- Adaptable: Thrives in fast-paced environments and effectively manages shifting priorities
Desirable
- Experience building highly distributed systems
- Familiarity with modern database technologies and open-source tools
- Knowledge of Schema as Code principles to manage data infrastructure effectively
What the job involves
- The Data Services team at SoFi builds and maintains scalable, reliable, and secure software solutions powering our Operational Database Platform. We handle massive data volumes, ensuring high performance, redundancy, and security
- We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineer with expertise in backend development, cloud technologies, and automation
- You’ll create tools, automate processes, and collaborate across teams to improve infrastructure reliability and performance
- This role suits a hands-on problem solver passionate about building efficient, scalable systems in dynamic, data-intensive environments
- Design and Develop: Build scalable software solutions and tools to support the operational needs of SoFi’s database platform
- Collaborate: Work closely with operations and engineering teams to design and implement efficient, durable, and scalable systems
- Optimize Performance: Analyze system bottlenecks and implement improvements to ensure high performance and reliability
- Automate Processes: Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline workflows and improve operational efficiency
- Enable Teams: Create self-service tools and APIs that empower application teams to manage and interact with the platform efficiently
- Promote Best Practices: Define and advocate for software engineering and system architecture best practices for data-intensive applications
- Monitor and Maintain: Implement observability tools to ensure system health and quickly identify issues
- Mentor: Guide and mentor junior engineers in technical best practices and foster a culture of engineering excellence
- On-call Support: Participate in an on-call rotation to address urgent issues, ensuring minimal disruption to the platform
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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