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Senior Software Engineer, Builder Tools

Social Finance (SoFi)
remote work
United States, Washington, Seattle
Nov 06, 2024
Employee Applicant Privacy Notice 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 highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Test Platform team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to directly impact the design and architecture of our Developer Platform and tooling that enables SoFi engineers to create and deliver high-quality solutions. You will collaborate and partner with a curious team of engineers to design and deliver solutions that raise the testing and reliability standards for our backend and web applications. If you are a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with a passion for enabling developers to build reliable services, and a strong background in distributed systems, we invite you to apply for this exciting and new opportunity. What You'll Do: Design, develop, and maintain software and systems that enable engineers to test backend and web applications, and deliver reliable solutions. Work closely with product engineering teams to understand requirements and design elegant platform solutions that are scalable, reliable and efficient. Provide technical leadership for initiatives in the Testing and Reliability domains Design and implement solutions that accelerate integration, load, performance and chaos testing practices, and impact overall service reliability. Deliver software solutions that enable engineers to seamlessly test and operate backend systems in a cloud, containerized and CI/CD environment. Research and prototype AI solutions to enhance developer productivity. Lead code reviews, refactoring and provide constructive feedback to team members. Promote best practices to improve code health, testing and software maintainability. What You'll Need: Experience - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field. 5+ years of software development experience. Experience developing in a cloud environment (AWS), using containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Envoy). Design - Strong understanding of software design principles, and distributed systems architecture. Coding Skills - Proven programming skills (Java, Kotlin, Python, Go) in developing enterprise scale systems. Expertise - Expertise in automated testing strategies, testing in production, test tenancy, API mocking, traffic capture, routing and playback technologies. Problem Solving - Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically about the Testing and Reliability domains. Project Ownership - Ability to manage and deliver projects from scoping through launch. Communication - Effective communication and collaboration, and proven skills to operate effectively in a cross-functional team. Nice to haves: Experience with load testing (e.g., Locust, Artillery), E2E testing (e.g., Cypress), failure injection and chaos testing (Gremlin, AWS FIS) technologies. Experience with monitoring and logging (e.g. Datadog, Elastic, Splunk). Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Argo, GitLab CI/CD). Experience with security and compliance requirements in cloud environments. 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. To view all of our comprehensiveand competitivebenefits, visit our Benefits at SoFipage! SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law. The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. New York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights SoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com. Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time. Internal Employees If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.