Senior Software Engineer, Invest

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Who we are:

The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. SoFi Invest is SoFi’s new investment platform that includes our market-leading robo-advisor, and online brokerage (stock, ETF, and mutual funds trading) products.

On our team, you will be in the middle of it all – implementing functionality, architecting our system, squashing bugs, maintaining the health of our code, and continually growing as an engineer. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker. At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying and continual improvement and evolution.

At SoFi, you’ll become part of a new kind of finance company whose ambition is to help our members achieve financial independence and reach their goals. We aim to be at the center of our members’ financial lives, and to help every member get their money right. We created student loan refinancing, addressing the biggest financial challenge of a new generation through a modern approach to lending and personal finance. Next we expanded our products and services across loans, wealth management, and insurance. SoFi has achieved significant growth, with ambitious plans ahead, but to continue this growth we need great talent. And that starts with you.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the development and testing of system components/services, code and design reviews


• Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product


• Help translate user stories into 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

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree, ideally in a technical field, but we understand great engineers come from all sorts of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience


• 5+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack


• Our core stack is React / Java / Spring / PostgreSQL, but you don't have to be an expert in any of these. 4+ years Java, Kotlin or Scala programming experience and an understanding of relational databases and ORMs suffices


• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done


• Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion


• Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features, not polishing perfect code or architecture


• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment (and git specifically), refining designs together, writing tests, working through code reviews and managing pull requests

Nice to Have:

• Worked with trading and/or exchange systems


• Experience with workflow platforms such as Temporal.io or AWS Step Functions


• Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems


• Trading APIs (either crypto or securities)


• Familiarity with the FIX Protocol


• Experience with Scrum