Staff Software Engineer, SoFi
Money Movement
$153.6-264k
+ Eligible for a bonus and long term incentives
Mobile & online personal finance services
Posted today
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Posted today
$153.6-264k
+ 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
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering and analytics technical strategy
- Proficiency in data engineering tech stack; Snowflake / PostgreSQL / Python / SQL / GitLab / AWS / Airflow/ DBT and others.
- Proficiency in relational database platforms and cloud database platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, or GCP
- Strong in Python and/or another data centric language
- Thorough knowledge of data modeling, database design, data architecture principles, and data operations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capability to simplify complex issues into actionable plans
Desirable
- Experience working in fintech or with payment systems, particularly cross-border money movement or FX
- Familiarity with blockchain-based payment networks (e.g., Bitcoin Lightning, stablecoin rails) or third-party settlement providers
- Exposure to data governance, compliance, and audit frameworks in financial services
- Knowledge of real-time data streaming technologies and event-driven architectures
- Experience supporting ML-driven use cases or real-time decision systems within financial products
What the job involves
- Are you passionate about building high-scale, high-integrity data infrastructure that powers next-generation global financial products? Do you thrive at the intersection of data strategy, engineering excellence, and business impact? If so, we want you on our team
- SoFi is looking for a Staff Data Engineer to lead the design and development of data pipelines and models supporting a new Global Money Movement platform.
- This product will enable members to send instant, affordable payments across borders using modern technologies—including blockchain-based networks. As a Staff Data Engineer, you’ll play a foundational role in shaping the data architecture that powers everything from financial reporting to real-time decisioning and ML-enabled product intelligence
- You’ll work closely with engineering, product, analytics, data science, and compliance teams to deliver robust, scalable, and secure data systems. Your work will help ensure that SoFi delivers a compliant, performant, and member-first remittance experience on a global scale
- Design and Build: Develop scalable, resilient data models and pipelines to support the ingestion, processing, storage, and retrieval of large-scale financial data, supporting mission-critical analytics and operational workflows
- Architect for Scale: Optimize and scale data infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness using modern cloud platforms and data processing frameworks
- Drive Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional stakeholders—including product, analytics, risk, and compliance—to understand data needs and deliver solutions that enable business decisions, reporting, and customer insights
- Lead with Excellence: Define and implement best practices in data modeling, governance, access control, and documentation. Champion high standards across engineering operations and production systems
- Elevate Data Strategy: Influence data architecture decisions that impact the broader platform roadmap. Identify areas for data innovation and guide long-term investments to advance SoFi’s global payments capabilities
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.
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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