Staff Software Engineer, SMB

SoFi • Seattle, WA

6h

About The Position

This role is focused on the Lantern team at SoFi. Our mission is to build and grow a financial marketplace, building both a compelling supplier experience for providers of financial products, as well as a compelling user experience in suggesting the right financial products for our users. Ideal candidates have a passion for designing beautiful APIs and well architected systems.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Lantern team who will help build our next generation Marketplace 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
• 8+ 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.
• 4+ 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
• Desire to grow, learn and collaborate with team of engineers.

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.

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
• Drive operational excellence in our business processes to deliver higher service quality
• Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level