Senior Staff Software Engineer, SoFi
Builder Tools
Mobile & online personal finance services
Open for applications
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will be a mentor, technical leader and a team player who is hands-on and comfortable driving solutions from initial architecture to implementation and adoption with a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery
- 8+ years software development experience with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience developing in a cloud environment (AWS), using containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Envoy)
- Expertise in AI assisted developer productivity tools (e.g., CoPilot, Amazon Q), build systems for JVM ecosystem (e.g., Gradle, Bazel), and CI/CD systems (e.g., Gitlab, BuildKite, ArgoCD)
- Strong understanding of software design principles, and distributed systems architecture
- Strong problem solving and programming fundamentals (algorithms, data structures)
- Proven coding skills (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python) delivering large scale systems with infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform)
- Ability to own, manage and deliver complex projects from scoping through launch. Experience leading Agile development practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication. Demonstrated ability to collaborate well with technical and non-technical members, and proven skills to operate effectively in a cross-functional team
Desirable
- Experience with security, compliance, and risk management in cloud environments
- Experience with monitoring and logging (e.g. Datadog, Elastic, Splunk)
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Builder Tools engineering organization with a mission to enable SoFi engineers to elegantly solve problems
- In this role, you will have the opportunity to directly impact, influence and lead the direction and architecture of our developer tooling, and elevate developer experience by enabling engineers through foundational systems
- You will get the chance to define, and take on complex and interesting problems as part of a fast-paced, highly collaborative organization
- Technical leadership - Provide thought leadership for the technical architecture, design, implementation, delivery and operational excellence of code, build, CI/CD platforms, backend language frameworks and related developer tooling
- Innovate - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation in developer tooling, and advancements including AI assisted developer productivity flows
- Exemplary Practitioner - Be a subject matter expert for one or more developer tooling domains including operational excellence
- Mentor - Collaborate with engineers in the team, provide mentorship, and domain expertise to enhance the overall technical capabilities of the team.
- Continuous Improvement - Contribute to creating a culture of continuous learning, data-driven decisions and improvements. Proactively identify and manage risks
- Collaborate –Build strong working relationships with coworkers and cross-organizational teams
- Influence - Influence and scale the adoption of developer tooling and best practices across the engineering organization
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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