Staff Backend Developer, SoFi Money

About the position

The Staff Backend Developer at SoFi Money will play a crucial role in transforming the Money product architecture, focusing on enhancing the banking core and implementing new account structures. This position requires collaboration across teams to improve member-facing services and support integrated product offerings. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader, responsible for the full development life-cycle, from project requirements to deployment, while ensuring high-quality code delivery and adherence to best practices.

Responsibilities
?? Full development life-cycle design from project requirement to deployment.
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?? Work on automation and improvement of data exchanges and data pipelines between internal and external teams.
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?? Facilitate the definition of project scope, deliverables, and goals.
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?? Lead cross-functional delivery teams to ensure deliverables are met.
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?? Track project performance against defined milestones/goals.
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?? Conduct process improvement projects to increase performance in vital program metrics.
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?? Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leadership.
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?? Maintain strict compliance with established project management policies and guidelines.
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?? Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
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?? Make significant contributions to the code base.
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?? Define best practices and uphold coding standards.
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?? Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity.
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?? Develop and apply advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories, and concepts.
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?? Work within the Engineering team to develop features that specifically benefit our users.
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?? Deliver high-quality code on schedule, communicate with groups in and outside the development team.

Requirements
?? Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a fully-accredited college or university.
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?? 6+ years of Java programming experience.
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?? 2+ years of Java, Kotlin, or Scala programming experience.
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?? Proven understanding of relational databases and ORMs.
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?? Experience working on a SOA or microservice-based application.
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?? Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion.
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?? Experience working in a collaborative coding environment.

Nice-to-haves
?? Good knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD).
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?? Knowledge in analytics, metrics, and monitoring integrations.
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?? Test-driven development along with unit and integration testing.

Benefits
?? Comprehensive and competitive benefits package.

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