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Full Stack Software Engineer, Home Loans
At SoFi, we are redefining the future of finance. As a Full Stack Software Engineer on our Home Loans team, you will help build cutting-edge technology systems that support our lending business. You will collaborate with a team of engineers empowered to make technical decisions that directly impact the success of the business and our SoFi members.
On our team, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design, and Engineering so you will be in the middle of it all – implementing new functionality, architecting our system, squashing bugs, maintaining the health of our code, and continually growing as an engineer. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting mission-critical systems. You’ll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way, as well as helping mold and grow the junior members of the team.
A successful Home Loans platform is instrumental in the future and success of the company, and you have the opportunity to help shape and guide that future and exponentially grow the customer base of this product.
What You’ll Do:
Utilize different object-oriented programming languages to build performant and scalable applications within a cloud-based microservice architecture
Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the products
Develop technical solutions for new product requirements
Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
Collaborate with business stakeholders, product management, operations, and peer technical teams to deliver impactful products.
Work with our core technology stack: React / Nextjs / Java / Kotlin / Distributed Systems / Spring Boot / AWS / Postgres / MongoDB
What You’ll Need:
Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field
2+ years of programming experience, ideally on a modern microservice stack
Expertise in React, Nextjs, Typescript, GraphQL, Java / Kotlin, Spring, MongoDB, and AWS
Experience with modern frameworks, component-driven development, APIs, and relational databases
Strong sense of accountability and ownership; capable of driving a feature from inception to completion
Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others, and get stuff done
Experience working in a team coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews, and managing requests
Passionate about broadening your technical skill set, trying out new ideas, and teaching others
Effective communication and ability to work independently with limited support or supervision
Desire to grow, learn, and collaborate with a team of engineers
Nice to Have:
Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, cloud infrastructure, Terraform, and CI/CD
Familiarity with cloud-native services, especially AWS services such as DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, S3, and Athena
Fintech, finance, or real estate industry experience
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