Engineering Manager, SoFi
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$153.6-264k
This role is also eligible for a bonus
Mobile & online personal finance services
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Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$153.6-264k
This role is also eligible for a bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is forward-thinking, hands-on, and has a strong sense of ownership
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Strong technical background and expertise in software development, including proficiency in multiple programming languages, frameworks, and technologies
- Proven experience as a Software Development Manager or technical leadership role, preferably in a fast-paced software development environment
- Demonstrated experience in managing and leading software development teams, with a track record of successfully delivering complex software projects
- Excellent leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate team members to achieve high performance
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience with these technologies: Kafka, Kurbenetes, Datadog, CI/CD, Java / Kotlin, Python, Typescript, Spring boot and GraphQL
- Proficient in platform monitoring using tools such as DataDog
- Knowledge of AI and usage of LLMs
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Software Engineering Manager to drive the execution and delivery of a set of horizontal platforms and services within the Fraud, Risk, Operations and Support Technology services product suite to support our ever-growing member and business needs
- Specifically, we are looking for a platform engineering manager to help drive the evolution of our fraud risk transaction architecture, fraud investigations tooling, risk signals feature store, and restrictions and permissions platforms
- The tools and capabilities you build will empower our fraud risk partners and extended engineering teams to embrace and adopt these platforms
- On our team, you'll be leading the technical direction and growth of the platform and a team of engineers building platforms and services
- You'll be bringing your best practices and experience to the table to help us level up
- You will have opportunities to make a significant immediate impact on the success of the company while growing the team and members of the team
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, providing guidance, support, and fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment
- Define and communicate team objectives, set performance goals, conduct performance evaluations, and provide ongoing feedback and coaching
- Identify skill gaps within the team and coordinate training programs to enhance technical capabilities
- Foster a culture of innovation, professional growth, and continuous improvement
- Oversee the software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, goals, and deliverables, and create project plans, schedules, and budgets
- Manage project priorities and resolve conflicts to ensure efficient project execution
- Track and report project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to software development teams, promoting best practices, architectural standards, and code quality
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and collaboration throughout the software development process
- Foster strong working relationships with cross-functional teams, promoting effective communication, coordination, and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate with other senior leaders to develop and execute strategies that drive operational excellence and improve software development practices
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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