Senior Software Engineer, Protect
About The Position
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Protect team who will help build our next generation Insurance platform. You will have the opportunity to set technical direction for a growing and critical business function within SoFi where the overall architecture is still relatively greenfield and the business impact is high. This is a great opportunity to help shape the evolution of the team and the platform capabilities for years to come. We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Back-End Software Engineer to join our team in building a state-of-the-art insurance platform. The successful candidate will have a strong background in designing, developing, and maintaining robust back-end systems. As a Senior Back-End Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the scalability, performance, and security of our platform.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack.
- Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / AWS/ PostgreSQL, and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture.
- 3+ years Java, Kotlin or other OO programming experience
- A solid understanding of relational databases and ORMs
- Experience working on microservice-based applications.
- Experience working with GIT and CI/CD systems.
- Effective communication skills
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
- View Unit and Integration test as 1st class citizen in software development
Nice To Haves
- Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems
- Full-stack experience, either toward systems (kafka, temporal, docker), databases (DynamoDB), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)
- Insurance Industry Experience: Familiarity with the insurance industry and its specific regulatory requirements.
- Experience incorporating LLMs into user flows
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and testing of our systems and services
- Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product
- Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions
- Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
