Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Student Loans

Sofi • Cottonwood Heights, UT

127d • $128,000 - $240,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our Private Student Loans team. In this role, 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical field.
• 5+ years of programming experience, ideally on a modern microservice stack.
• Strong experience with modern Java frameworks, GraphQL, REST APIs, and relational databases.
• Expertise in React.js and modern front end frameworks.
• Strong sense of accountability, code quality and testing, and ownership; capable of driving a project from inception to completion.
• Willingness to mentor and collaborate with others.
• Experience working in a team coding environment, refining designs together, iterating on ideas, participating in code reviews, and managing requests.
• Passionate about broadening your technical skill set, experimenting with new ideas, and teaching others.
• Effective communication skills.
• Desire to grow, learn, and collaborate with a team of engineers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Typescript, NextJs, CSS, XState, StyleX, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, cloud infrastructure, Terraform, and CI/CD.
• Experience with Production monitoring tools such as DataDog, Kibana, Splunk.
• Fintech, finance, or lending industry experience.
• Experience with safe deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Utilize object-oriented programming languages to build performant and scalable backend applications within a cloud-based microservice architecture.
• Own and develop technical solutions for new product requirements.
• Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment.
• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies.
• Drive operational excellence in our business processes to enhance service quality.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product management, operations, and peer technical teams to deliver impactful products.
• Work with our core technology stack: React / Java / Kotlin / Microservices / Spring Boot / AWS / PostgreSQL

Benefits

• Base pay range: $128,000.00 - $240,000.00
• Eligible for a bonus and long term incentives.
• Comprehensive and competitive benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees