Staff Software Engineer - Insurance Platform Development

About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Protect team at SoFi, where you will help build our next generation Insurance platform. This Staff Software Engineer remote position offers the opportunity to set technical direction for a growing and critical business function within SoFi. The overall architecture is still relatively greenfield, and the business impact is high. Join us to shape the evolution of the team and the platform capabilities for years to come.

What You'll Do

• Lead the development and testing of our systems and services.
• Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product.
• Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions.
• Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment.
• Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team.
• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies.
• Drive operational excellence in our business processes to deliver higher service quality.
• Communicate with project leads, product managers, and other software developers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack. Our core stack is Java/Kotlin/Spring/AWS/PostgreSQL, and we run on Kubernetes in a service-oriented architecture.
• 4+ years Java, Kotlin or other OO programming experience.
• A solid understanding of relational databases and ORMs.
• Experience working on microservice-based applications.
• Experience working with GIT and CI/CD systems.
• Effective communication skills.
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others, and get stuff done.
• Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion.
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests.
• View Unit and Integration tests as first-class citizens in software development.
• Desire to grow, learn, and collaborate with a team of engineers.

Nice To Have

• Experience scaling highly available, mission-critical systems.
• Full-stack experience, either toward systems (Kafka, Temporal, Docker), databases (DynamoDB), or front-end (JavaScript/TypeScript, React).
• Insurance Industry Experience: Familiarity with the insurance industry and its specific regulatory requirements.
• Experience incorporating LLMs into user flows.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary range of $153,600 – $264,000 per year.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, wellness, and retirement plans.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Remote work flexibility (note: unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time).
• Inclusive company culture that values diversity and equal opportunity.