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# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Invest

- **Company:** SoFi Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $172,800.0 - $297,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Computer Programming, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Financial Information EXchange, PostgreSQL, Network Protocols, ReactJS, Delivery Pipeline, Spring-boot, Sofi, Git, Kotlin
- **Published:** May 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6d80e508708f27ae

## About the Role

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
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 + 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

## 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


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