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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
We're looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to join our team and contribute to some of SoFi's most impactful products. You'll play a pivotal role in evolving our offerings, from the market-leading robo-advisor and online brokerage (stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds) within SoFi Invest, to the architecture transformation of our SoFi Credit Card, and the exciting new frontiers of our Crypto team. We're designing future-looking frameworks to scale our customer base, delight existing users, and disrupt the banking industry across these vital areas. This highly collaborative environment requires unified planning and execution due to the complexity and interdependencies of these initiatives.
As a SoFi staff software engineer, you’ll be in the middle of it all – you’ll work with stakeholders to implement functionality, architect our systems, squash bugs, and continually grow as an engineer. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong 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 building, deploying and continual improvement and evolution - and you’ll be working with an all-star team of talented engineers.
What you’ll do:
Lead frontend projects across your team, along with mentoring junior team members.
Develop testable and accessible web applications.
Work with designers to identify and solve potential implementation issues.
Generate, enhance, and promote ideas for useful new projects and technologies.
Deliver and operate highly available and scalable services in a production environment.
Communicate with project leads, product managers, and other software developers on multiple projects.
Define new product/technical architectures across one or several features of products.
Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help the team grow.
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
Over 8 years of experience with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
Familiarity with responsive design/development and mobile-web best practices.
Solid understanding of software design and architecture.
Experience in unit, functional, and end-to-end testing.
Experience with Node.js a plus
Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
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
Nice to have:
Interest in personal finance
Experience managing your own investments or experience taking out loans
Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems
Full-stack experience, either toward systems (kafka, docker, posix), databases (postgres), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)
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