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SeniorFull-timePythonJavaSpringAWSKubernetesDockerTerraformPostgreSQLCI/CD
Salary Range
$132,600 - $179,400 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our SoFi Card team. This role plays a pivotal part in evolving the foundational platform that powers the credit lifecycle, including servicing, payments, balances, interest, fees, eventing, and integrations with internal and external cores.
Key Responsibilities
- →Define and evolve the technical architecture of our credit platform, ensuring clean domain boundaries and scalable integrations.
- →Design and implement foundational credit services such as interest calculation, payment allocation, balance computation, and lifecycle state transitions.
- →Deliver highly available, scalable, and resilient services in a production environment.
- →Drive event-driven architecture patterns that ensure reliable communication between credit systems and partner products.
- →Ensure financial correctness, auditability, and operational resilience across our platforms.
- →Lead the development, testing, and rollout of complex distributed systems.
- →Mentor engineers and raise the bar for technical design, operational excellence, and domain modeling.
- →Work cross-functionally to resolve technical conflicts, navigate trade-offs, and achieve alignment across squads.
- →Ensure our systems remain modular, maintainable, and easy to evolve as we expand product offerings.
- →Generate ideas for product and platform improvements to delight our members.
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- ✓8+ years of experience designing and implementing complex backend systems.
- ✓Strong experience with Java / Spring / Kotlin / Python / PostgreSQL / AWS.
- ✓Deep understanding of software architecture, domain modeling, and distributed systems.
- ✓Experience building at-scale backend applications with high availability requirements.
- ✓Experience designing event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka or similar technologies).
- ✓Strong understanding of data consistency, idempotency, transactional integrity, and eventual consistency in distributed financial systems.
- ✓Experience integrating with external systems or financial cores.
- ✓Proven ability to influence architectural decisions across multiple teams while remaining hands-on.
- ✓Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical trade-offs to diverse stakeholders.
- ✓Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform).
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