Staff Software Engineer, Home Loans

The role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team who will help build a cutting-edge technology platform for Home Loans. You will be part of a team empowered to make technical decisions.

On our team, you will be in the middle of it all – implementing new functionality, architecting our system, squashing bugs, maintaining the health of our code, and continually growing as an engineer. We interact heavily with pricing, data science, and risk analytics to deliver solutions that allow us to lead the market in making decisions and moving quickly. The ideal candidate is 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. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building and deploying to continual improvement and evolution. You’ll face and solve various challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way and using your areas of expertise to grow the capabilities of the rest of the team.

What you’ll do:

We’re looking for full-stack engineers who are comfortable:

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  Architecting, designing, and delivering scalable, highly available services and/or creating responsive, performant, and maintainable React-based web apps.

  
  


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  Owning and ideating technical solutions for product requirements and user stories

  
  


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  Participating in code and design reviews

  
  


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  Generating ideas for new initiatives and technologies

  
  


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  Becoming domain experts in the Home Loans business

  
  


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  Collaborating and representing engineering with outside stakeholders in product marketing, operations, business, legal, and compliance

  
  


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  Working in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment across multiple offices

  
  


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  Mentoring more junior members of the team and helping foster a learning environment within the team

  
  

What you’ll need:

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  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

  
  


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  5+ years of programming experience, ideally on a modern stack.

  
  


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  Our core stack is React / Java / Spring / PostgreSQL. Expertise in modern Javascript frameworks, REST APIs, and relational databases is a great start.

  
  


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

  
  


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  Strong sense of responsibility, driving a project from inception to completion

  
  


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  Affinity for solving problems and diving deep into the details

  
  


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  Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews, and managing pull requests
  Familiarity with Agile methodologies as well as software testing: unit, integration, and end-to-end

  
  


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  A passion for writing maintainable, well-tested code
   

  
  

 Nice to have:

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  Full-stack engineering experience, or a willingness and passion for broadening your technical skill set

  
  


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  Experience with React, GraphQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, REST, gRPC, gradle, GitLab, ActiveMQ, Kotlin, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD

  
  


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  Fintech/finance experience

  
  


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  Experience with WCAG & accessibility testing

  
  


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  Experience with React, XState