Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack (Chat)

The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join the Chat engineering team at SoFi. This team will play a pivotal role in supporting our members' financial journeys by developing an intelligent, conversational AI-powered chat interface. This system will help streamline support queries from members and provide personalized financial insights and guidance. Chat is a critical component of how members interact with SoFi and building it will require a thoughtful approach to UI and product experience.

You will have a high degree of ownership and be involved in the entire product life cycle. We are looking for someone who can take accountability for 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:

• Development, testing and deployment of software systems


• Drive technical architecture, design decisions and cross-functional discussions for the product


• Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team


• Actively participate in reviews to ensure code quality, efficiency, and adherence to best practices


• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies


• Help translate product requirements into technical solutions


• Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers


• Adapt existing practices, processes and frameworks to deliver tasks


• Collaborate with peers as well as cross functional teams to coordinate and deliver projects 


• Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment

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


• 4+ years programming experience including Full stack experience with React/Typescript and Kotlin/ Java


• Our core stack is React / Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL, and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production. 




• You should have 2+ years, Java or Kotlin programming experience 


• You should have a good understanding of relational databases 


• You should have 2+ years of experience building React based web applications


• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests


• Pragmatic approach towards handling tech debt versus shipping new features

Nice to have:

• Experience building LLM based applications 


• Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems