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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.
We are seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to join our team. SoFi is building out a new team to develop crypto products and services for our members. Recent developments made a path for SoFi to begin to re-enter the space and expand on our product offerings with intuitive, secure and fully featured products across crypto Investing, Transfers, Payments, Custody and beyond.
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.
Key responsibilities
- Produce well-designed, scalable, and reusable code on schedule
- Independently design and build large features, breaking work into subtasks where necessary
- Maintain a high bar in code and design reviews, following modern mobile development practices
- Drive communication across the development team and with other stakeholders
- Collaborate across functions and teams to reduce ambiguity and keep projects on track
- Track project performance against defined milestones/goals
- Mentor junior engineers throughout the organization
- Create and improve technical documentation
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (ideally in a technical field), but we understand great engineers come from a variety of backgrounds; we will also consider relevant work experience
- 5+ years mobile programming experience (Flutter strongly preferred)
- Familiarity with Agile-based project development in a microservices environment
- Experience with designing and consuming backend APIs for mobile applications
- Test-driven development skills
- Passion for solving complex problems
- 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
- Able to design and build modern and highly-responsive customer-facing components
Nice to haves:
- Understanding of blockchain fundamentals and distributed ledger technologies
- Hands-on experience working with digital assets (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins)
- Familiarity with custody, settlement, and clearing of crypto transactions
- Knowledge of crypto-specific regulatory environments (e.g., SEC, CFTC, MiCA, etc.)
- Exposure to crypto trading platforms, market data, and DeFi protocols
- Experience integrating with or building services using crypto infrastructure providers (e.g., Fireblocks, Zero Hash, Anchorage)
- Awareness of Web3 trends, including NFTs, DAOs, and Layer 2 solutions
- Prior work in or collaboration with crypto-native companies or fintechs
- Comfort with cryptographic concepts such as wallets, keys, and signatures
- Enthusiasm for the evolving digital asset ecosystem and its potential impact on financial services
SoFi New York, New York, USA Office
Our New York office, located in the meat-packing district, provides an open work environment and is a hub for our finance teams. Our large conference, flexible work spaces, huddle rooms, and shared community areas allows our teams to openly collaborate while looking at some spectacular views.
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