Senior Staff Software Engineer, Loans Platform

SoFi

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$172,800–$216,000 / yr
Posted
165 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $194k
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This role pays more than 52% of similar roles. Most pay $156,037–$223,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $194k versus about $190k for comparable roles.

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About SoFi

SoFi Technologies is a fintech company offering student and personal loans, mortgages, credit cards, investing, banking, and insurance products, positioning itself as a one-stop financial services platform. Industry: Financial Technology & Personal Finance

SoFi currently has 36 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $153,600–$258,500 across 36 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Loans Platform

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SoFi is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the evolution of its financial services platform, focusing on defining and executing technical strategies that align with business goals. This role involves resolving complex design issues, coordinating multi-team efforts, and driving improvements in engineering culture and processes. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of professional software development experience, including 4+ years in a leadership position, and a proven track record of leading cross-functional initiatives to enhance productivity and system reliability. Key skills include expertise in scaling mission-critical systems, proficiency with Git and CI/CD tools, and the ability to mentor engineers while fostering collaboration across Product, Marketing, Operations, Business, Legal, and Compliance teams.

Skills

Git CI/CD Agile Python PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes AWS Terraform Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Leads design and implementation efforts to achieve multi-team or organization-wide outcomes.
  • Resolves complex platform issues under competing constraints, ambiguity, and high risk.
  • Defines long-term architectural direction for critical areas of the platform, aligning multiple teams.
  • Drives alignment across teams by resolving technical and organizational conflicts.
  • Raises engineering maturity by driving improvements in culture and processes.
  • Mentors engineers both within and outside immediate team, participating in recruiting.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent.
  • 4+ years in a technical leadership role, defining and leading cross-team initiatives.
  • Proven ability to increase engineering productivity and improve engineering excellence.
  • Deep understanding of scaling highly-available, mission-critical systems.
  • Expert proficiency with GIT and related CI/CD systems.

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