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Who we are:
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.
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The role:
We are seeking a Senior Flutter Software Engineer to join the Chat engineering team at SoFi. This team will play a pivotal role in supporting our members' financial journeys by developing an intelligent, conversational AI-powered chat interface. This system will help streamline support queries from members and provide personalized financial insights and guidance. Chat is a critical component of how members interact with SoFi and building it will require a thoughtful approach to UI and product experience.
The ideal candidate is collaborative, product-minded, and pragmatic, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for the quality of both the code and finished product. 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 building, deploying and continual improvement and evolution. We also pride ourselves on a philosophy of continuous learning, and you should likewise be committed to furthering your own career growth as well as to providing mentorship for your fellow team members.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the design, development and testing of Flutter code
- Help translate product requirements into user stories and mobile implementation
- Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
- Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
- Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers
- Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment
- Interface with engineers in the team to bring a product idea to fruition in the mobile app
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’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
- 5+ years mobile programming experience (iOS/Android/Flutter)
- 2+ years of programming on the Flutter framework
- Good understanding of mobile frameworks, client-server architectural patterns
- Strong sense of ownership; driving a project from inception to completion
- Pragmatic approach towards handling tech debt versus shipping new features
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
Nice to have:
- Experience working with websockets
- Experience working with various emerging LLM technologies, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, or AI agents.
- Experience building chatbots, virtual assistants, or similar systems.
- Full-stack experience across Backend or Front-end (Kotlin, javascript/typescript, react)
- Previous experience building platform-level frameworks and components in a large codebase
- Expertise in mobile performance tuning
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