Principal Engineer, AI, SoFi
$192-330k
+ 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
$192-330k
+ 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 is very strong on implementation and methods and equally motivated to develop strategies and plans
- You are comfortable making opinionated decisions and very often those decisions prove to be useful
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other technical field from a fully-accredited college or university
- 8+ years of impactful experience, with significant depth in the methods and implementation details of machine learning and AI. If you have less experience but feel this is the right job for you, we want to hear what has been exceptional about your faster journey
- Expert understanding and hands-on experience building, integrating and operating production data products and infrastructure. Your focus is data, but you have very solid software engineering skills. The lessons you have learned in your career so far will help accelerate the team
- Deep hands-on experience with major technologies such as Airflow, DBT, git, docker/k8s, BI tools, Spark, AWS, Snowflake, sklearn, TF, PyTorch, etc. You also are aware of ML/AI SaaS tools in industry and have a perspective on where the industry is going. No one is an expert in everything but you have real breadth and depth
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a desire to share the right information with the right people. You do not need to be a polished speaker, you just need to be great at collaborating and helping others understand your work
- You have a very high sense of motivation and agency in your work. In situations where some might get blocked by challenges you find paths forward
- You work and play well with others; SoFi is a highly collaborative workplace and a melting pot of diverse talent. You make others feel safe to bring their entire selves to work and foster a positive environment around you
- You care personally about your teammates and you know that sometimes the best way to express that care is to challenge them directly to get to the truth
- You thrive on developing creative solutions to hard problems
- You take pride in your craft and seek practical excellence, meaning you hold a high bar for the quality of your work while remaining pragmatic about how to maximize your total impact over time
- You are customer-obsessed and have an affinity for solving complex problems and shipping impactful features
- You are confident in asking difficult questions at all levels of the organization
- You listen and eagerly accept feedback, knowing that it can help you grow
- You love learning - you have the ability to quickly and independently acquire proficiency in new languages and technologies
- You are either experienced with finance / fintech or you are enthusiastic to learn and grow in this space
- Mentoring others motivates you. You consistently find ways to encourage technical growth of those around you
- Helping people live better lives with the help of technology motivates and inspires you to do your best work
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Principal Engineer with very strong engineering skills (or a software engineer with deep expertise in machine learning) to drive SoFi’s technical capabilities in ML and AI across multiple teams
- In this role you will report directly to the VP of Data and accomplish high-impact work across multiple teams, divisions and organizations
- Beyond direct impact on ML and AI products, your responsibility will include mentorship, leadership in shaping standards for technical design and execution, hiring practices, and operational excellence
- You will work closely with engineering, product, data science, executive teams and more to drive vision, strategy and execution
- Collaborate with multiple teams to build ML / AI products to bring value to our members. You will have opportunities to do significant hands-on development work on ML / AI systems
- Serve as the tech lead and architect for ML and AI across multiple business units and drive technical standards company-wide
- Advocate for continually-improving practices and drive inspiring standards for hiring, coding and collaboration
- Develop, apply, and socialize impactful technology, engineering principles and concepts
- Work across teams at SoFi to help develop & enhance products and systems
- Provide technical mentorship to data scientists and continually improve our data-driven culture
- Lead & present in broad forums with senior technical leaders across the company
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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