Senior Software Engineer, Relay (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 Senior Software Engineer to join the Relay engineering team at SoFi, where we are designing for the future of personal finance. We are looking to helping our customers 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.

 

The ideal candidate is 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 development and testing of system components/services, code and design reviews

• 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

• Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, 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

• 4+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack

• Our core stack is 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 strong understanding of relational databases and ORMs

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

• 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

• Experience managing your own investments or experience taking out loans 

• Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems

• Full-stack experience, either toward systems (kafka, docker, posix), databases (postgres), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)

• Experience building data insight products

 

Due to the temporary nature of the engagement, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

Compensation and Benefits The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.

$81-$122/hour

Compensation and Benefits The base pay range for this role