Senior Frontend (or Full Stack) Software Engineer, Protect

The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Protect team who will help build our next generation Insurance platform. You will have the opportunity to set technical direction for a growing and critical business function within SoFi where the overall architecture is still relatively greenfield and the business impact is high. This is a great opportunity to help shape the evolution of the team and the platform capabilities for years to come.

We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Frontend Software Engineer to join our team in building a state-of-the-art insurance platform. The successful candidate will have a strong background in designing, developing, and maintaining responsive, high-performance, and secure user interfaces and experiences (UI/UX). 

As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering exceptional customer experiences, ensuring the performance, accessibility, and reliability of our user-facing applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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
• Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
• Our core frontend stack includes JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML5, and CSS
• 3+ years experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern frontend framework like React
• A solid understanding of UI/UX principles, state management (e.g., Redux, Context API), and cross-browser compatibility
• Experience integrating frontend applications with RESTful APIs or GraphQL
• 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 test as 1st class citizen in software development (especially for UI components)

Nice To Have:

• Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems
• Full-stack experience, particularly with back-end technologies like Java/Kotlin or cloud platforms (AWS, Kubernetes)
• Insurance Industry Experience: Familiarity with the insurance industry and its specific regulatory requirements
• Experience incorporating LLMs into user flows