Senior Engineering Manager, SoFi
People Analytics
$163.2-280.5k
+ Bonus + Long term incentives
Mobile & online personal finance services
Be an early applicant
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$163.2-280.5k
+ Bonus + Long term incentives
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform engineering
- 5+ years managing or formally leading engineers
- Proficiency in data engineering tech stack: Python / SQL / dbt / Airflow / Gitlab
- Experience designing dimensional models, semantic layers, data marts, or analytical data products
- Experience with data quality, testing, lineage, observability, and production support
- Strong ability to translate business needs into technical architecture
- Experience with sensitive or regulated data and access controls
- Proven ability to coach engineers and build healthy technical culture
- Strong communication with technical and non technical stakeholders
- Proficiency in relational and cloud database platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, or GCP
- Thorough knowledge of data modeling, database design, data architecture principles, data operations, and CI/CD
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capability to simplify complex issues into actionable plans
Desirable
- People analytics, HR data, compensation, talent, workforce planning, or Workday experience
- Experience building AI, LLM, RAG, or natural language analytics products
- Experience with Snowflake Cortex AI, Streamlit, semantic models, or evaluation frameworks
- Experience in fintech, banking, or regulated environments
What the job involves
- This role will lead the data engineering function supporting People Analytics, including AI-assisted workforce analytics on Snowflake. This is a player-coach role requiring hands-on technical leadership plus people leadership, with strong business partnership and the ability to balance speed, quality, governance, and innovation
- Manage and develop data engineers
- Manage, coach, and grow a team of data engineers
- Set expectations for quality, collaboration, delivery, and technical ownership
- Create a strong engineering culture where people solve hard problems, move quickly, and enjoy the work
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as other data engineers, people analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders, to translate requirements into production-ready deliverables, and communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical partners
- Stay hands on
- Write and review production code
- Lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical problem solving
- Step into critical pipelines, models, or AI workflows when needed
- Build scalable People data foundations
- Design and maintain sustainable data models, pipelines, semantic layers, and testing frameworks
- Establish team practices for documentation, lineage, data quality, and observability
- Own engineering standards
- Set standards for SQL, Python, dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, testing, documentation, CI/CD, and release management
- Ensure the team ships work that is reliable, maintainable, secure, and understandable
- Enforce data governance policies and practices to maintain data integrity, security, and compliance with relevant regulations
- Support AI enabled analytics
- Own technical delivery for AI-assisted workforce analytics and internal tools
- Translate business needs into scalable technical designs, delivery plans, and engineering milestones
- Partner with People Analytics, People leaders, Legal, Compliance, and other stakeholders to deliver trusted workforce insights
- Partner on semantic models, evaluation datasets, testing, and quality controls for AI-assisted analytics
- Balance speed and rigor
- Create enough process to protect quality, privacy, and trust for sensitive People data without slowing the team unnecessarily
Our take
SoFi started by offering ways for students to secure better financial terms on their loans, and now offers a huge range of personal finance products, including bank accounts, loans, mortgages, investment advice, and investment opportunities. Many customers find they have to go to multiple financial service providers to meet all their finance needs, but SoFi overcomes this issue by putting it all in one place.
Its goal, to cover all the financial bases, sets it apart from many of the traditional banks and even some of their digital competitors, such as Avant, which has chosen to focus on providing credit alternatives. Although it is operating in a competitive market with a lot of big players such as Monzo, Revolut, and Starling, the company has managed to raise huge amounts of funding to support its rapid expansion.
SoFi has focussed on global expansion, moving outside the US, and has made a series of acquisitions to support this - including a Hong Kong-based investment app called 8 Securities. After going public on the New York Stock Exchange via a SPAC merger in June 2021, the company has continued to evolve and release more mission-oriented services into its roster and has strengthened its lending capabilities through a $350 million post-IPO loan. To date, the company has funded over $117 billion in loans and continues to strengthen its offering.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$369.9m
LATE VC
May 2019
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $2.7bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Generous vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) and education on retirement planning
- Tuition reimbursement on approved programs, up to $5,250 per year
- Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
- Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
- Flexible time off
- Fertility and family planning options
- Free financial classes
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Anthony Noto
(CEO)Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy after being a telecommunications officer and captain in the U.S. Army. Has worked as Head of Gobal Telecommunications, Media and Technology at Goldman Sachs, been the COO of Twitter, and also the CFO of the National Football League.
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