Staff Front End Software Engineer, Lantern (Contract)

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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 fintech company 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 Staff Front End Engineer for a technical lead role to join our team. You will have the opportunity to set technical direction for a growing business function within SoFi where the overall architecture is still relatively greenfield and the business impact is high. This is a great opportunity to help shape the evolution of the team and the platform capabilities for years to come. 

This role is focused on the Lantern team at SoFi. Our mission is to build and grow a financial marketplace, building both a compelling supplier experience for providers of financial products, as well as a compelling user experience in suggesting the right financial products for our users. Ideal candidates have a passion for designing beautiful APIs and well architected systems.

What you’ll do:

Full development life-cycle design from project requirement to deployment.
Use React/HTML/CSS/TypeScript/JavaScript to turn designs into performant and maintainable user interfaces
Facilitate the definition of project scope, deliverables, and goals.
Lead cross-functional delivery teams to ensure deliverables are met.
Track project performance against defined milestones/goals.
Conduct process improvement projects to increase performance in vital program metrics.
Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leadership
Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
Work with designers to identify and solve potential implementation issues
Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product
Lead the development and testing of system components/services, code and design reviews
Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment
Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
Define best practices and uphold coding standards.
Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity. Develops and applies advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories, and concepts. Broad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialty.
Must be able to deliver high-quality code on schedule, communicate with groups in and outside the development team.
Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team

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 related experience or demonstrated equivalent
Experience with React
Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling
Strong knowledge of semantic HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Familiarity with responsive design/development and mobile-web best practices.
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 (and git specifically), refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
Bonus: Experience working with NextJS, Redux, Typescript, Cypress, Playwright and working on large-scale applications

Nice to have:

Good knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
Knowledge in analytics, metrics, and monitoring integrations
Test-driven development along with unit and integration testing.
Full-stack engineering experience, or a willingness and passion to broaden your technical skill set
Expertise with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, AWS, CI/CD.
Fintech/finance experience
Experience working in customer facing websites
Awareness of the digital marketing ecosystem