Software Engineer, Invest
at SoFi
WA - Seattle
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Who we are:
Shape a brighter financial future with us.
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
The Role
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our team. SoFi Invest is SoFi’s investment platform that includes our market-leading robo-advisor, online brokerage (stock, ETF, Mutual Funds, and Alts trading).
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 solid 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.
What you’ll do:
- Delivering resilient and scalable code
- Owning and ideating on technical solutions for product requirements and user stories with minimal supervision
- Participating in code and design reviews
- Generating ideas for new initiatives and technologies
- Communicating engineering concepts and efforts with outside stakeholders in product marketing, operations, business, legal, and compliance
- Working in a fast-moving, highly-collaborative environment across multiple offices
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s Degree, in a technical field
- 1 year programming experience, ideally on a modern stack. Internships and relevant school experience will be considered.
- Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / PostgreSQL/ React. Familiarity with any OOP language and an understanding of relational databases is a great start.
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests.
- Agile Development Experience
- API Design experience
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others, and get stuff done
- Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
- Affinity for solving problems and diving deep into the details
Nice to have:
- Experience with microservice architecture