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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.
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Member Growth engineering team at SoFi, where we are designing for the future of personal finance. We are looking to help our Members find their path to financial independence by providing them with the tools, resources, and guidance they need to get there. We want to be part of the customers financial journey by providing them timely insights, tailored to their needs, that will establish and build trust. Building this will involve taking a thoughtful and personalized approach towards every user’s financial needs.
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.
What you’ll do:- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while participating in code reviews to ensure high engineering standards
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, contributing to the overall reliability and performance of our systems
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Marketing partners to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Communicate effectively with project leads, product managers, and other engineers to deliver features on time
- Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
- 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
- 2–4+ years of professional backend software engineering experience working on production systems.
- Proficiency in Kotlin or Java and experience with the Spring Boot framework
- Exposure to cloud environments, preferably AWS, and containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes
- Working knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL/MySQL), including schema design, queries, and common access patterns.
- Experience with event based architectures, ideally leveraging Kafka
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features, not polishing perfect code or architecture
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
- Interest in personal finance
- Experience in MarTech platforms like marketing campaign orchestration, personalization
- Full-stack experience across backend and frontend
- Experience with data pipelines such as Airflow
- Experience with observability and analytic tools like DataDog, Amplitude and Streamlit
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