Principal Software Engineer, Loans Platform

SoFi•Seattle, WA

11h•Remote

About The Position

Join us in revolutionizing the lending landscape. SoFi is seeking enthusiastic Principal Software Engineers who are ready to lead the technical and strategic evolution of our financial services platform in support of our goals that put our members in control of their financial destiny.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or Software Engineering
10+ years as a professional, full-time Software Engineer, or similar relevant work experience.
7+ years in a technical leadership role.
Proven track record of defining and leading cross-team initiatives in support of key business and strategic goals.
Proven track record of leading initiatives to increase engineering productivity and improve engineering excellence
Exemplary communication and documentation skills.
Proficient coding in Java, Kotlin, or other similar object-oriented programming language.
Experience with public cloud compute, storage, and infrastructure.
Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and Spring Boot or similar frameworks.
Deep understanding of relational and document database fundamentals.
Deep understanding of microservices design principles and architecture.
Deep understanding of scaling highly-available, mission-critical systems.
Expert proficiency working with GIT and related CI/CD systems.
Experience leading and improving Agile methodologies.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS technologies – DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, S3, and Athena.
Full-stack engineering experience, or willingness to expand your influence across our entire platform.

Responsibilities

Leading the development and execution of strategic org-wide or company-wide initiatives across multiple product or platform domains.
Identifying and resolving systemic business, technical, or organizational problems that span multiple organizations across the company.
Defining the long-term architectural direction across all areas of the platform or across multiple products, aligning stakeholder teams around a shared vision and business goals.
Driving alignment across divisions to resolve technical and organizational conflicts in order to deliver on SoFi’s business and strategic goals.
Raising the engineering maturity of the organization by identifying and leading key improvements in the organization's culture and processes that support engineering excellence.
Identifying and leading key improvements in systems supporting engineer productivity and velocity.
Collaborating with partners to create and align technology and company strategy, resulting in plans that address the short and long-term goals of the business.
Mentoring engineers across the organization, being a key contributor in recruiting processes, and helping shape hiring standards.
Partnering across technology and business teams to define and execute the technical vision and strategy for the platform.
Defining and building consensus around evolutionary roadmaps across the platform.
Strong individual contributions in coordinating and implementing those plans in stages that deliver distinct customer value.
Leading improvements to the engineering efficiency and culture of engineering excellence across the team.
Building and maintaining effective partnerships with Product, Marketing, Operations, Business, Legal, and Compliance teams.
Driving alignment and delivering technical solutions that provide outstanding value to our members.