Senior Software Engineer, SoFi
Compute Services
$128-240k
+ Bonus + Long term incentives
Mobile & online personal finance services
Be an early applicant
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$128-240k
+ Bonus + Long term incentives
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- If you are an experienced engineer with expertise in cloud technologies and a passion for building reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity
- Experience: Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience, or Master's degree and 3+ years of related experience, or PhD with relevant experience, or equivalent practical experience
- Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge: Strong experience with and deep understanding of AWS services, cloud infrastructure best practices, and security principles, especially containers, networking, storage, and compute. Ability to think strategically about cloud infrastructure and platform design
- Software Engineering Skills: Proficiency in languages such as Go, Python, or similar along with software design principles and best practices
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) practices and tools (e.g. Terraform)
- Problem-Solving: Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems, balancing technical trade-offs and business needs
- Communication and Collaboration: Ability to work cross-functionally, build trust with stakeholders, and facilitate productive discussions across teams
- Autonomy and Ownership: Proven track record of setting ambitious goals, driving projects with minimal oversight, and relaying progress effectively to management
- Adaptability: Comfortable with shifting priorities and able to communicate implications and modified timelines to partners
- Collaborative Mindset: You thrive in cross-functional environments, building strong relationships, and driving consensus toward shared goals
- Commitment to Innovation: You’re excited to learn, iterate, and innovate, helping the team solve challenging problems in creative ways
- Alignment with SoFi’s Values: You demonstrate and promote the core values that drive SoFi’s mission and culture, inspiring others through your work and interactions
Desirable
- Automation: Experience automating infrastructure tasks to increase efficiency and reduce manual effort
- CI/CD: Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as ArgoCD, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD
- Monitoring: Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Datadog, Splunk)
- Risk: Experience with security and compliance in cloud environments
- Mentorship: Experience providing guidance and mentorship to less experienced engineers
What the job involves
- We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to join our Compute Services team!
- In this role, you will use your software engineering skills to build infrastructure and be a key contributor to the design, development, and delivery of foundational cloud platforms that enable our teams to build and operate efficiently on AWS
- You will help shape the development of our infrastructure-as-code solutions, focusing on EKS, compute, and storage
- Develop and Implement Solutions: Contribute to and/or design, develop, and maintain new and existing software that enables developers to efficiently interact with our cloud infrastructure and services so they may seamlessly self-service
- Technical Problem-Solving: Tackle diverse and complex technical challenges by applying creative problem-solving and sound judgment, considering trade-offs and making principle-based decisions
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership by identifying opportunities for automation and process improvement to enhance developer productivity for the Cloud Infrastructure team
- Drive Project Success: Take on increased responsibility for projects that impact multiple teams and stakeholders. Own the resolution of escalations and drive projects to successful outcomes
- Risk Awareness: Identify potential risks associated with projects and communicate them to management to ensure alignment and implement appropriate mitigation strategies
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build relationships across teams, understand stakeholder needs driving consensus and shared success in designing solutions that are intuitive, efficient, scalable, and reliable, and facilitate collaboration to integrate into cloud environments
- Adapt and Innovate: Embrace a fail-fast approach, iterating quickly to learn, adapt, and drive innovation. Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in cloud infrastructure and software engineering
- Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for improvement in existing processes, infrastructure, or tools, such as strategies for optimizing cloud costs, resource utilization, and overall performance, and take the initiative to drive change
- Mentorship and Guidance: Support junior engineers, sharing your knowledge and helping to elevate team-wide technical practices. Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members
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 them 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.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Put our member's interests first – if we take care of our members' interests, it will best serve our interests.
- Run after problems – we must build a culture of people who run after problems in order to ensure we execute with excellence and “things” do not fall through the cracks.
- Embrace diversity, everyone should feel welcome, included and able to contribute – diversity is a differentiator and our team should reflect society. We should continue to encourage and celebrate diversity.
- Get to the truth and make principle-based decisions – we can only make the best decisions if we have the right data, all of the perspectives, and if we align on the guiding principles.
- Make your footprint bigger than your foot – selfless acts are critical to elevate beyond the impact of our collective individual efforts.
- Do the right thing, if you're not sure, do the harder thing – our business is built on trust and integrity, which requires both adhering to the letter of the law and regulations and doing the right thing for the company and our members..
- Set ambitious goals, be gritty, be accountable - we must hold ourselves and others accountable for delivering our business objectives, for our culture, and for our member.
- Take care of other people and help them grow - our people are our greatest differentiator, if we take care of our people, they will take care of our members.
- Iterate, learn, innovate - we are all responsible for innovation and we must embrace data-driven decisions.
- Be SoFi missionaries - our products, our services, our brand, and our business must be durable over the long term to achieve our mission—be a missionary.
- Don’t forget to smile - our ambition is contagious: it makes us smile to see people inside and outside of SoFi succeed.
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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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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