Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer, Member Growth

The role:

We are seeking a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Member Growth engineering team at SoFi, where we are designing for the future of personal finance. We are looking to help our Members find their path to financial independence by providing them with the tools, resources, and guidance they need to get there. We want to be part of the customers financial journey by providing them timely insights, tailored to their needs, that will establish and build trust. Building this will involve taking a thoughtful and personalized approach towards every user’s financial needs.

You will operate as a technical leader and team player, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Design and Data Science teams. The ideal candidate is hands-on, collaborative, product-minded, and pragmatic, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for the quality of both the code and finished product. 

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. We also pride ourselves on a philosophy of continuous learning, and you should likewise be committed to furthering your own career growth as well as to providing mentorship for your fellow team members.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the architecture and implementation of large, cross-cutting initiatives (each with many tasks) independently and with strong ownership.


• Participate in shaping the long term technical architecture of the products that drive member growth and marketing efficiency.


• Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions.


• Produce well-designed, scalable and reusable code. Participate in and lead code and design reviews, setting a high technical bar across the team.


• Drive high-complexity projects in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment. Track and communicate project progress against defined milestones and business goals.


• Mentor and inspire other engineers 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


• 6+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack with a proven track record of delivering high quality, production-grade applications


• Full stack experience including React/Typescript and Kotlin/ Java


• We run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production


• You should have a strong understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL and ORMs with a good understanding of data access patterns


• You should have worked on a SOA or microservice-based application preferably using REST.


• 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, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests

Nice to have:

• Interest in personal finance


• Knowledge of Clean Architecture, S.O.L.I.D, or G.R.A.S.P principles.


• Experience in MarTech platforms like marketing campaign orchestration, personalization


• Experience managing your own investments or experience taking out loans


• Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems


• Experience building data insight products