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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.
**PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE WILL BE BASED IN HELENA, MT. THE CANDIDATE SHOULD BE IN HELENA, MT, WE ARE NOT ALLOWING RELOCATION ASSISTANCE**
The Role:
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Underwriting team who will help build a cutting edge technology platform to support our lending business. You will be part of a team that is 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 which allow us to lead the market in making decisions and moving quickly. The ideal candidate is both 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 and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying, continual improvement and evolution. You’ll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way, as well as using your areas of expertise to grow the capabilities of the rest of the team.
What You’ll Do:
Use different object-oriented programming languages to build performant and scalable backend applications in a cloud-based microservice architecture
Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product
Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions
Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
What You’ll Need:
Our core stack is: Java / Kotlin / Spring / AWS / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB
Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming best practices
Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
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
Very good written and spoken communication skills
Nice to Have:
A passion for well-tested code and utilizing testing frameworks
Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, React, Kotlin
Experience with relational databases including PostgreSQL with JPA/Hibernate
Experience with public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
Agile-based project development in a microservices environment
Experience in fintech/finance
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