Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Operations

The Role We are seeking a Full Stack Staff Software Engineer to join our team in building next-generation applications that empower our front-line and back-office agents to better support our members. With rapid advancements in AI, we are integrating automation and intelligent assistance into agent-facing tools—improving workflows, reducing friction, and elevating the member experience. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and deploying these next-generation applications. You’ll work across the stack with a strong emphasis on front-end development. You will design and deliver intuitive, responsive, and performant UIs with React while also contributing to back-end services and APIs. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering partners to bring ideas from concept through production, ensuring solutions are reliable, scalable, and impactful. You’ll also mentor junior engineers and help grow a culture of technical excellence. On our team, you will be in the middle of it all – implementing functionality, architecting our system, squashing bugs, maintaining the health of our code, and continually growing as an engineer. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker. At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying and continual improvement and evolution. At SoFi, you’ll become part of a new kind of finance company whose ambition is to help our members achieve financial independence and reach their goals. We aim to be at the center of our members’ financial lives, and to help every member get their money right. We created student loan refinancing, addressing the biggest financial challenge of a new generation through a modern approach to lending and personal finance. Next we expanded our products and services across loans, wealth management, and insurance. SoFi has achieved significant growth, with ambitious plans ahead, but to continue this growth we need great talent. And that starts with you. What You\'ll Do: Build and maintain modern front-end applications with React, JavaScript/TypeScript, and reusable component libraries. Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and system design to drive high-quality solutions. Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment Collaborate with designers to implement pixel-perfect, accessible, and user-friendly interfaces. Design and develop scalable APIs and backend services (Java/Kotlin, PostgreSQL). Apply operational excellence best practices: monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and ensuring system reliability. Experiment with AI-driven features (e.g., context-aware responses, intelligent data retrieval). Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers What You\'ll Need: Bachelor’s Degree, ideally in a technical field, but we understand great engineers come from all sorts of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience 8+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack Our core stack is React / Java / Kotlin / Spring / PostgreSQL / AWS bedrock, but you don\'t have to be an expert in any of these. 6+ years Java or Kotlin programming experience and an understanding of relational databases and ORMs suffices 2+ years of front-end development experience with React (hooks, state management, component-driven design). Proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3. Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done Strong 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 (and git specifically), refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests Mentor junior developers Understanding of operational excellence and its importance. Has experience in various monitoring tools such as DataDog. Expert programming skills with solid fundamentals. Understanding of AI terminology is a plus 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 comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page. 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 an inclusive culture and offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr