Staff Software Engineer: Protect

About the position

We are looking for a Staff 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. This role is focused on the Protect team at SoFi. Our mission is to help our members find their path to financial independence by providing them with the tools, resources, and guidance they need to get there.

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

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.

Benefits

• Base pay range: $153,600.00 - $264,000.00
• This role is also eligible for a bonus, long term incentives and competitive benefits.