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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.
The Role:
Are you passionate about building secure, scalable tier-0 services? Does thethought of capturing and storing highly sensitive data excite you? If so, then we want you!
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer (Contract) to join the SoFi Digital Identity team. The Digital Identity team was formed last year to revolutionize how we handle customer identity data. We focus on collecting, protecting, and distributing the critical data that enables SoFi and its subsidiaries to recognize and support customers as they move through digital product experiences.
As a Senior Software Engineer (Contract) on our team, you'll be tasked with building critical components and features. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting mission-critical systems. The ideal candidate is someone with a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, a hunger for learning and is a good mentor and co-worker.
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, architect, and implement end-to-end solutions.
- Excel in operational excellence to develop a resilient platform to enable SoFi.
- Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product, generating new ideas wherever applicable.
- Deliver highly available, secure and scalable services in a production environment
- You get to work on cutting-edge technologies like GraphQL, Istio and Kafka.
- We have a culture of continuous learning and development, so you'll never stop growing.
- You'll be working in the heart of the FinTech revolution, making a real difference in the financial lives of millions.
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor's degree, ideally in a technical field, but we understand great engineers come from a variety of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience
- 4+ years experience in software development, with a strong knowledge of object-oriented programming best practices (preferably Java or Kotlin).
- Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion and knowing that a project is not complete when it is shipped to production.
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills
- Desire to mentor and help others improve their skills
Nice to Have:
- Proven track record of building highly-scalable REST APIs and building performant and scalable tier-0 backend applications.
- Prior experience using Java, Postgres and AWS, while also deploying applications using Docker and Kubernetes
- Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (gradle, git, automated testing and deployments)
- History of working with a cloud-based microservice architecture and distributed service communications
SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.
The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
New York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights
SoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com.
Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
