Staff Software Engineer, Bank – SoFi

The role

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the SoFi Banking Operations team. This is a newly formed team that will have a huge impact on how SoFi manages our money. You will partner with the treasury, finance, and operations teams to automate, scale, and execute our biggest financial decisions. 

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 solid 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 the building, deploying, and continual improvement and evolution.

What you’ll do:

• Full development life-cycle design from project requirement to deployment.
• Work on automation and improvement of data exchanges and data pipelines between internal and external teams. 
• 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.
• Conduct process improvement projects to increase performance in vital program metrics.
• 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, Computer Science Degree 
• 6+ years Java programming experience
• 2+ years as a technical lead
• Experience in other programming languages such as Kotlin
• Dev management experience
• Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / PostgreSQL/ Reactexperience with any or all of the above
• Deep understanding of relational databases including PostgreSQL with JPA/Hibernate.
• Git-based distributed version control systems
• Agile-based project development in a micro-services environment
• Work and play well with others; SoFi is a collaborative environment
• Passion for solving complex problems

Nice to have:

• Good knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
• Knowledge in analytics, metrics, and monitoring integrations
• Test-driven development along with unit and integration testing.