Principal Web Platform Engineer, SoFi
$192-330k
+ Bonus
Mobile & online personal finance services
Job no longer available
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$192-330k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- Deep expertise in front-end engineering (10+ years), with a strong focus on scalable web platforms
- Proven experience designing and building reusable SDKs, UI libraries, and platform APIs
- Expertise in modern front-end frameworks (React preferred), build tooling, and testing frameworks
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, web performance optimization, and accessibility standards
- Excellent cross-functional communication and leadership skills
- Experience with mobile-web and responsive web frameworks
Desirable
- Experience with monorepos and frontend infrastructure tooling
- Familiarity with micro-frontend patterns and federated module systems
- Strong instincts for developer experience and system design at scale
- Experience building GraphQL infrastructure and models
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a highly experienced Principal Web Platform Front-End Engineer to lead and establish a new team at SoFi called “Web Core.” This team will be central to scaling our 80+ consumer-facing and internal web applications
- In this role, you’ll drive the design, architecture, and development of platform-level tools, libraries, documentation, and front-end patterns that power our web ecosystem
- As a hands-on technical leader, you’ll shape the future of SoFi’s web platform infrastructure—enabling consistency, performance, and scalability across products
- You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, infrastructure, and executive leadership to define and execute a strategic vision that supports company-wide goals
- The team will be an AI-first team, adopting LLM/agentic-powered technologies to accelerate and scale our web platform
- An engineer should ideally be excited about learning and integrating with these new tools
- Lead the architecture and development of reusable front-end platform tools, SDKs, and shared libraries
- Design and maintain systems that improve developer experience across CI/CD, testing, and deployment pipelines
- Define standards and best practices for performance, accessibility, and design system adoption
- Partner with cross-functional teams to drive adoption and alignment of core platform capabilities
- Tackle complex technical and organizational challenges that span teams and products
- Mentor engineers across the org, championing engineering excellence and knowledge-sharing
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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