Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

The role

SoFi is hiring a Senior Frontend Software engineer for the Growth Foundations team. This team is a part of SoFi's MarTech group and is dedicated to transforming the marketing technology landscape. Our expert team enhances data accessibility, optimizes marketing efficiency, and provides innovative solutions that align with SoFi’s core values. By offering tools for automation and self-service, we empower the marketing team and promote a culture of innovation and adaptability in response to the digital landscape and privacy regulations.

What you’ll do:

• Work on React-based web applications with a cross-functional team.

• Develop testable and accessible web applications.

• Work with designers to identify and solve potential implementation issues.

• Generate, enhance, and promote ideas for useful new projects and technologies.

• Deliver and operate highly available and scalable services in a production environment.

• Communicate with project leads, product managers, and other software developers on multiple projects.

• Define new product/technical architectures across one or several features of products.

• Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help the team grow.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in a technical field, but we understand great engineers come from a variety of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience

• 5+ years of experience with modern JavaScript libraries, tooling, and frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of front-end technologies.

• Familiarity with responsive design/development and mobile-web best practices.

• Solid understanding of software design and architecture.

• Experience in unit, functional, and end-to-end testing.

• Experience with Node.js a plus

• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others, and get stuff done

• Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion

• Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features, not polishing perfect code or architecture

• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews, and managing pull requests

Nice to have:

• Interest in personal finance

• Experience managing your own investments or experience taking out loans 

• Experience scaling highly available, mission-critical systems

• Full-stack experience, either toward systems (Kafka, docker, posix), databases (postgres), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)