Software Engineer, Chat
SoFi
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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.
The role:
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Chat engineering team at SoFi. This team will play a pivotal role in supporting our members' financial journeys by developing an intelligent, conversational AI-powered chat interface. This system will help streamline support queries from members and provide personalized financial insights and guidance. Chat is a critical component of how members interact with SoFi and building it will require a thoughtful approach to UI and product experience.
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:
- Development, testing and deployment of software systems
- Actively participate in reviews to ensure code quality, efficiency, and adherence to best practices
- Execute on well defined technical tasks and user stories with high quality in a timely manner
- Help translate product requirements into technical solutions
- Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers
- Adapt existing practices, processes and frameworks to deliver tasks
- Collaborate with peers as well as cross functional teams to coordinate and deliver projects
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
- 2+ 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 1+ years Java or Kotlin programming experience
- You should have a basic understanding of relational databases
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
Nice to have:
- Experience working with asynchronous systems and event based systems (queues, streams)
- Experience working with SQL databases
- Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems
- Full-stack experience across Backend and Front-end (javascript/typescript, react)
- Working on LLM based applications