Senior Staff Software Engineer, Invest
SoFi Technologies, Inc.
Seattle, United States of America
4 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 297KJob location
Remote
Seattle, United States of America
Tech stack
Java
API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Code Review
Computer Programming
Relational Databases
Distributed Systems
Financial Information EXchange
PostgreSQL
Network Protocols
React
Delivery Pipeline
Spring-boot
Sofi
GIT
Kotlin
Job description
- Help shape the technical architecture & design of the Sofi Invest core systems
- Lead best practices for development, testing and releasing the SoFi Invest component while contributing to the shared components across SoFi
- Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
- Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
- Shape the architecture of foundational systems including but not limited to market data, ledger, search
Requirements
Do you have experience in Tooling?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Proven experience designing and building highly scalable distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, resource optimization, and network protocols.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and leadership skills., * Bachelor's or Master's Degree, ideally in a technical field, but we understand great engineers come from all sorts of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience
- 10+ years related experience or demonstrated equivalent
- Expertise in modern back-end frameworks (Spring boot preferred), build tooling, and testing frameworks
- Experience in scaling and designing highly available, mission critical systems
- 8+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
- Our core stack is React / Java / Play / Spring / PostgreSQL, but you don't have to be an expert in any of these. 6+ years Java, Kotlin or Scala programming experience and an understanding of relational databases and ORMs suffices
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
- Affinity for solving hard problems and shipping impactful features
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment (and git specifically), refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
- Bonus
- Worked with trading and/or exchange systems
- Experience building ledger and transactional systems
- Experience with workflow platforms such as Temporal.io or AWS Step Functions
- Trading APIs (either crypto or securities) and FIX protocol
About the company
Shape a brighter financial future with us.
Together with our members, we're changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We're a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we're at the forefront. We're proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people's lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world., We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join our team. SoFi Invest is SoFi's investment platform that includes our market-leading robo-advisor, and online brokerage (stock, ETF, and mutual funds trading) products.
On our team, you will be in the middle of it all - implementing functionality, architecting our system, squashing bugs, maintaining the health of our code, and continually growing as an engineer. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker. At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying and continual improvement and evolution.
At SoFi, you'll become part of a new kind of finance company whose ambition is to help our members achieve financial independence and reach their goals. We aim to be at the center of our members' financial lives, and to help every member get their money right. We created student loan refinancing, addressing the biggest financial challenge of a new generation through a modern approach to lending and personal finance. Next we expanded our products and services across loans, wealth management, and insurance. SoFi has achieved significant growth, with ambitious plans ahead, but to continue this growth we need great talent. And that starts with you.