Staff AI Software Engineer, SoFi
Risk Engineering
$153.6-264k
This role is also eligible for a bonus and long term incentives
Mobile & online personal finance services
Be an early applicant
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$153.6-264k
This role is also eligible for a bonus and long term incentives
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has 8+ years of engineering experience, a proven record of full-stack delivery, and deep expertise in designing AI-driven solutions from the UI to the data back-end
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with heavy focus on full-stack custom product delivery specializing in AI
- Solid devops and infrastructure-as-code experience using ArgoCD and GitLab for deployment, CI/CD, and environment management
- Advanced proficiency in React, Node.js, and front-end–to–back-end custom app development
- Extensive hands-on experience with database platforms - Snowflake strongly preferred, including advanced features, AI/ML integrations, and Snowflake Cortex
- Deep expertise in orchestrating real-time and scheduled pipelines with Airflow
- Track record of delivering high-quality, production-grade, scalable, and highly available cloud-based services
- Strong communicator; able to collaborate and drive decision-making with cross-functional stakeholders
- Willingness to take ownership, mentor others, and champion learning and innovation within the organization
Desirable
- Exposure to other cloud-native or AI workflow orchestration platforms
- Prior fintech or high-throughput consumer product experience
- Experience deploying and scaling LLM-powered chatbots or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) platforms
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Gen AI applications, you’ll play a critical, hands-on role in building, deploying, and optimizing scalable, real-time, full-stack custom applications powered by the latest advances in Generative AI
- You will work across cross-functional delivery teams to shape technical architecture, champion best practices, and directly produce high-value solutions for our users
- Architect, design, and build end-to-end user-facing AI applications using rich interactive user-interfaces with your expertise working with information extracted from databases and APIs (including leveraging Snowflake Cortex for advanced AI workloads)
- Manage deployment pipelines and infrastructure as code using ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, and AWS best practices
- Design and implement multi-agentic AI applications leveraging frameworks like LangChain / LangGraph, enabling autonomous, stateful, and collaborative agent workflows for complex, real-world problem solving
- Own technical decompositions of new product requirements; lead delivery from ideation to deployment and continual improvement
- Deploy, optimize, and monitor workflows on enterprise frameworks
- Automate real-time and batch data flows using orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
- Participate in technical architecture reviews, code and design reviews, and help guide technical decision-making for AI-driven services
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-impact solutions; mentor peers and foster a growth-mindset environment
- Stay current with GenAI, LLM infrastructure, and the evolving tooling ecosystem; generate ideas to expand product capabilities and technical reach
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 strengthened its lending capabilities through a $350 million post-IPO loan. To date, the company has sold over $15 billion in personal loan collateral 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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