Social Finance, Inc. (SoFi)
Staff Backend Software Engineer, Operations
Social Finance, Inc. (SoFi), San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Overview
Staff Backend Software Engineer, Operations 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 transforming, and we’re at the forefront. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The Role We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our team in building next-generation applications that empower our front-line and back-office agents to better support our members. With rapid advancements in AI, we are integrating automation and intelligent assistance into agent-facing tools—improving workflows, reducing friction, and elevating the member experience. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and deploy these next-generation applications. You’ll work across the stack with a strong emphasis on back-end development, designing and delivering reliable, scalable, and high-performance back-end services and APIs, while occasionally contributing to front-end integrations. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering partners to bring ideas from concept to production, ensuring solutions are secure, maintainable, and impactful. You’ll mentor junior engineers and help grow a culture of technical excellence. You will be involved in implementing functionality, architecting the system, squashing bugs, maintaining code health, and continuously growing as an engineer. At SoFi, we value collaboration across Product, Design and Engineering from ideation through deployment and continual improvement. What You\'ll Do Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and system design to drive high-quality solutions. Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment. Apply operational excellence best practices: monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and ensuring system reliability. Experiment with AI-driven features (e.g., context-aware responses, intelligent data retrieval). 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 relevant work experience is considered. 8+ years of programming experience, ideally on a modern stack. Core stack includes React / Java / Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL / AWS bedrock; 6+ years Java or Kotlin programming experience and understanding of relational databases and ORMs suffices. Willingness to collaborate and deliver; strong sense of ownership. Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features. Experience working in a collaborative coding environment (Git), refining designs, code reviews, and PR management. Understanding of operational excellence and monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog). Expert programming skills with solid fundamentals. Understanding of AI terminology is a plus. Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is $153,600.00 - $264,000.00. Final base pay offers depend on experience, skills, and location. This role is eligible for a bonus, long-term incentives, and competitive benefits. Pay frequency: Annual. To view all benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page. SoFi is an equal employment opportunity employer. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the application process. Privacy: We collect information to improve site navigation and for marketing purposes. For more information, refer to our privacy policy. Inclusion and compliance statements: SoFi hires the best-qualified candidates regardless of protected characteristics, and we consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records as required by law. SoFi is committed to an inclusive culture and may offer accommodations as needed. Remote work from Hawaii or Alaska is not available due to insurance coverage issues.
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Staff Backend Software Engineer, Operations 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 transforming, and we’re at the forefront. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The Role We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our team in building next-generation applications that empower our front-line and back-office agents to better support our members. With rapid advancements in AI, we are integrating automation and intelligent assistance into agent-facing tools—improving workflows, reducing friction, and elevating the member experience. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and deploy these next-generation applications. You’ll work across the stack with a strong emphasis on back-end development, designing and delivering reliable, scalable, and high-performance back-end services and APIs, while occasionally contributing to front-end integrations. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering partners to bring ideas from concept to production, ensuring solutions are secure, maintainable, and impactful. You’ll mentor junior engineers and help grow a culture of technical excellence. You will be involved in implementing functionality, architecting the system, squashing bugs, maintaining code health, and continuously growing as an engineer. At SoFi, we value collaboration across Product, Design and Engineering from ideation through deployment and continual improvement. What You\'ll Do Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and system design to drive high-quality solutions. Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment. Apply operational excellence best practices: monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and ensuring system reliability. Experiment with AI-driven features (e.g., context-aware responses, intelligent data retrieval). 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 relevant work experience is considered. 8+ years of programming experience, ideally on a modern stack. Core stack includes React / Java / Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL / AWS bedrock; 6+ years Java or Kotlin programming experience and understanding of relational databases and ORMs suffices. Willingness to collaborate and deliver; strong sense of ownership. Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features. Experience working in a collaborative coding environment (Git), refining designs, code reviews, and PR management. Understanding of operational excellence and monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog). Expert programming skills with solid fundamentals. Understanding of AI terminology is a plus. Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is $153,600.00 - $264,000.00. Final base pay offers depend on experience, skills, and location. This role is eligible for a bonus, long-term incentives, and competitive benefits. Pay frequency: Annual. To view all benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page. SoFi is an equal employment opportunity employer. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the application process. Privacy: We collect information to improve site navigation and for marketing purposes. For more information, refer to our privacy policy. Inclusion and compliance statements: SoFi hires the best-qualified candidates regardless of protected characteristics, and we consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records as required by law. SoFi is committed to an inclusive culture and may offer accommodations as needed. Remote work from Hawaii or Alaska is not available due to insurance coverage issues.
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