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Social Finance, Inc. (SoFi)

Senior Software Engineer, Credit Card

Social Finance, Inc. (SoFi), Seattle, Washington, us, 98127


The role

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Credit Card team. SoFi allows its members to Save & Spend in ways that help them achieve their financial independence. Our Credit Card is an

important piece of the overall personal finance puzzle. We are heavily investing in growing CC business and reinventing how we connect to customers in innovative ways - both on backend and front end. For that, we need to start designing our technology stack for future growth.

To achieve this goal, the team is developing new cloud services and we are looking for engineers who can bring fresh perspectives, thought leadership and help us scale for the future. We are just scratching the surface on many of these systems and have an ambitious roadmap ahead. 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, self-starter, drive for delivery, approaches complex questions with data & curiosity, dives below the surface to identify the root cause, and is a good mentor and co-worker.

What you’ll do:

Full development life-cycle design from project requirement to deployment.

Facilitate the definition of project scope, deliverables, and goals.

Lead cross-functional delivery teams to ensure deliverables are met.

Track project performance against defined milestones/goals.

Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leadership

Maintain strict compliance with established project management policies and guidelines.

Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.

Make significant contributions to the code base.

Define best practices and uphold coding standards.

Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity. Develops and applies advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories, and concepts. Broad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialty.

Work within the Engineering team to develop features that specifically benefit our users.

Must be able to deliver high-quality code on schedule, communicate with groups in and outside the development team.

What you’ll need:

Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a fully-accredited college or university

4+ years Java/Kotlin programming experience

Experience working on a SOA or microservice-based application.

A proven understanding of relational databases and ORMs

Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done

Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion

Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests

Nice to have:

Experience in designing large scale backend applications & systems.

Test-driven development along with unit and integration testing.

Experience working with AWS services, Spring Boot and handling live production issues.

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