Senior Staff Software Engineer, SoFi
Account Creation
$172.8-297k
+ Bonus
Mobile & online personal finance services
Open for applications
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$172.8-297k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is forward-thinking and hands-on, demonstrates exceptional ownership, is a self-starter, drives for delivery, approaches complex questions with data & curiosity, dives below the surface to identify the root cause, and is an outstanding mentor and leader
- Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science Degree, or equivalent from a fully-accredited college or university
- 8+ years of programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
- Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like React or Angular
- Strong expertise in back-end technologies and programming languages, such as Node.js, Python, Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / PostgreSQL, and we run on Kubernetes in a service-oriented architecture with over 100 services in production
- Knowledge of RESTful API design and implementation
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Strong sense of responsibility and ownership, driving a project from inception to completion
- Affinity for solving problems and diving deep into the details
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews, and managing pull requests
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience working on an SOA or microservice-based application
Desirable
- Experience scaling highly available, mission-critical systems
- Test-driven development along with unit and integration testing
- Flutter Development Experience: Experience with Flutter, Google's UI toolkit for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop platforms, would be a valuable addition
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Staff Fullstack Engineer to join and lead our Account Creation team at SoFi
- The goal of the Account Creation team is to build enablers that support the seamless creation of member accounts at SoFi
- In this role, you will not only play a key part in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting mission-critical systems but also provide leadership and guidance to your team
- Full Stack Development: Lead cross-functional teams to design, architect, and implement end-to-end solutions encompassing both front-end and back-end components
- Utilize your extensive expertise in various programming languages, frameworks, and technologies to deliver high-quality and scalable software applications
- Front-end Development: Take ownership of the user interface and user experience (UI/UX) design, ensuring visually appealing and responsive interfaces
- Implement intuitive and interactive features using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and be committed to creating a seamless and enjoyable user experience
- Back-end Development: Design and develop robust, scalable, and secure server-side applications and APIs
- Work with databases and data models to manage and store information effectively
- Optimize performance and maintain system stability
- Architecture and Design: Lead architecture discussions and provide valuable insights to drive technical decisions
- Ensure that software design patterns and best practices are followed throughout the development process
- Testing and Quality Assurance: Conduct thorough testing of software components, including unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing, to ensure the reliability and functionality of the applications
- Continuous Improvement: Stay ahead of industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in software development
- Advocate for process improvements and adopt new tools and technologies to enhance productivity and efficiency
- Code Review and Mentorship: Lead code reviews and provide constructive feedback to promote code quality and maintain coding standards
- Act as a mentor and share your knowledge and expertise with team members to foster their growth
- Leadership and Team Management: Act as the team lead, guiding and managing the Account Creation team
- Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support the professional development of team members
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment, ensuring effective communication and alignment with organizational objectives
- Strategic Planning and Execution: Collaborate with senior leadership to define the technical strategy and roadmap for the Account Creation team
- Drive the execution of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with SoFi's business goals and delivering high-impact solutions
- Stakeholder Management: Engage with key stakeholders across the organization to understand requirements, manage expectations, and ensure successful delivery of projects
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to provide updates and gather feedback
Our take
SoFi started by offering ways for students to secure better financial terms on their loans, and now offers a huge range of personal finance products, including bank accounts, loans, mortgages, investment advice, and investment opportunities. Many customers find they have to go to multiple financial service providers to meet all their finance needs, but SoFi overcomes this issue by putting it all in one place.
Its goal, to cover all the financial bases, sets them apart from many of the traditional banks and even some of their digital competitors, such as Avant, which has chosen to focus on providing credit alternatives. Although it is operating in a competitive market with a lot of big players such as Monzo, Revolut, and Starling, the company has managed to raise huge amounts of funding to support its rapid expansion.
SoFi has focussed on global expansion, moving outside the US, and has made a series of acquisitions to support this - including a Hong Kong-based investment app called 8 Securities. After going public on the New York Stock Exchange via a SPAC merger in June 2021, the company has continued to evolve and release more mission-oriented services into its roster, and strengthened its lending capabilities through a $350 million post-IPO loan. To date, the company has sold over $15 billion in personal loan collateral and continues to strengthen its offering.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$369.9m
LATE VC
May 2019
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $2.7bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Generous vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) and education on retirement planning
- Tuition reimbursement on approved programs, up to $5,250 per year
- Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
- Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
- Flexible time off
- Fertility and family planning options
- Free financial classes
Company values
- Put our member's interests first – if we take care of our members' interests, it will best serve our interests.
- Run after problems – we must build a culture of people who run after problems in order to ensure we execute with excellence and “things” do not fall through the cracks.
- Embrace diversity, everyone should feel welcome, included and able to contribute – diversity is a differentiator and our team should reflect society. We should continue to encourage and celebrate diversity.
- Get to the truth and make principle-based decisions – we can only make the best decisions if we have the right data, all of the perspectives, and if we align on the guiding principles.
- Make your footprint bigger than your foot – selfless acts are critical to elevate beyond the impact of our collective individual efforts.
- Do the right thing, if you're not sure, do the harder thing – our business is built on trust and integrity, which requires both adhering to the letter of the law and regulations and doing the right thing for the company and our members..
- Set ambitious goals, be gritty, be accountable - we must hold ourselves and others accountable for delivering our business objectives, for our culture, and for our member.
- Take care of other people and help them grow - our people are our greatest differentiator, if we take care of our people, they will take care of our members.
- Iterate, learn, innovate - we are all responsible for innovation and we must embrace data-driven decisions.
- Be SoFi missionaries - our products, our services, our brand, and our business must be durable over the long term to achieve our mission—be a missionary.
- Don’t forget to smile - our ambition is contagious: it makes us smile to see people inside and outside of SoFi succeed.
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Anthony Noto
(CEO)Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy after being a telecommunications officer and captain in the U.S. Army. Has worked as Head of Gobal Telecommunications, Media and Technology at Goldman Sachs, been the COO of Twitter, and also the CFO of the National Football League.
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