Staff Software Engineer, Mobile (Contract)

The role

We are looking for a Staff Mobile Engineer (contract) with a natural inclination to elegantly solve complex problems. Flutter experience is preferred, but not strictly required. As a member of the Mobile Core team, you will be responsible for improving our mobile-first banking experience and helping members get their money right. You will get the chance to take on challenging and interesting mobile scalability problems as part of a highly collaborative platform team. You will engage with Design and Product leadership routinely to put together engineering plans and have direct access to stakeholders. The ideal candidate will be a tech lead, mentor and a team-player who is hands-on and comfortable driving solutions from initial architecture to final implementation across teams with a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery . 

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.

What you’ll do:

• Must be able to deliver high-quality code on schedule, communicate with groups in and outside the development team.
• Produce well-designed, scalable and reusable code
• Participating in code and design reviews, setting a high bar for the team
• Be able to work effectively across functions and teams to ensure deliverables are met.
• Design and build large features (each with many tasks) independently without guidance.
• Track project performance against defined milestones/goals.
• Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders.
• Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Mentor more junior engineers.
• Create and add to existing technical documentation.
• Make significant contributions to the code base and drive the roadmap forward.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science Degree or equivalent from a fully-accredited college or university.
• 6+ years mobile programming experience in Android or iOS.
• Experience as a tech lead/architect for one or many mobile, feature or platform engineering teams
• Test-driven development along with unit and integration testing.
• Strong fundamentals in web protocols.
• Lead quality improvement in the mobile development at SoFi
• Evangelize and promote better mobile monitoring, logging and diagnosability 
• Propose and implement API strategies for frontend/backend communication
• Architect flexible, performant, and reusable UI components that satisfy the requirements of multiple teams
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, deliverables, and goals
• Communicate with cross-functional stakeholders and business leadership
• Define best practices and uphold rigorous coding standards
• Demonstrate and maintain deep technical knowledge in Flutter and/or mobile development, as well as broad knowledge about infrastructure and API design
• Mentor other engineers, support SoFi’s technical culture, and help grow the team
• Work and play well with others; SoFi is a collaborative environment.

Nice to have:

• Experience working with Flutter and other cross-platform technologies.
• Reactive programming knowledge (RX, Coroutines, Streams).
• Knowledge of and contributions to mobile open source frameworks.
• Understanding of S.O.L.I.D or G.R.A.S.P principles.
• Understanding of Clean Architecture patterns.
• Previous experience building platform-level frameworks and components in a large codebase.
• Expertise in mobile performance tuning.