Senior Software Engineer, Digital Identity (Contract)

The Role:

Are you passionate about building secure, scalable tier-0 services? Does the thought of capturing and storing highly sensitive data excite you? If so, then we want you!

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer (Contract) to join the SoFi Digital Identity team. The Digital Identity team was formed last year to revolutionize how we handle  customer identity data. We focus on collecting, protecting, and distributing the critical data that enables SoFi and its subsidiaries to recognize and support customers as they move through digital product experiences.

As a Senior Software Engineer (Contract) on our team, you'll be tasked with building critical components and features. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting mission-critical systems. The ideal candidate is someone with a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, a hunger for learning and is a good mentor and co-worker. 

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. 

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, architect, and implement end-to-end solutions. 
• Excel in operational excellence to develop a resilient platform to enable SoFi.
• Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product, generating new ideas wherever applicable.
• Deliver highly available, secure and scalable services in a production environment
• You get to work on cutting-edge technologies like GraphQL, Istio and Kafka.
• We have a culture of continuous learning and development, so you'll never stop growing.
• You'll be working in the heart of the FinTech revolution, making a real difference in the financial lives of millions.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in a technical field, but we understand great engineers come from a variety of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience
• 4+ years experience in software development, with a strong knowledge of object-oriented programming best practices (preferably Java or Kotlin).
• Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion and knowing that a project is not complete when it is shipped to production.
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills
• Desire to mentor and help others improve their skills

Nice to Have:

• Proven track record of building highly-scalable REST APIs and building performant and scalable tier-0 backend applications.
• Prior experience using Java, Postgres and AWS, while also deploying applications using Docker and Kubernetes
• Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (gradle, git, automated testing and deployments)
• History of working with a cloud-based microservice architecture and distributed service communications