Senior Engineering Manager, Protect

SoFi Tech Solutions•Seattle, WA

9d•$172,800 - $297,000

About The Position

SoFi Tech Solutions is a financial technology company providing software products and services for fintechs and financial institutions. The Senior Software Engineering Manager for the Protect team will lead the engineering organization building a next-generation Insurance platform. The role sets technical and operational direction for a rapidly expanding, mission-critical business line, with greenfield core platform architecture and direct business impact. It offers the opportunity to shape long-term platform capabilities, architecture, and engineering culture. The manager will cultivate teams that value diverse perspectives, continuous learning, iterative experimentation, end-to-end ownership, and technical curiosity. The role partners closely with Product, Design, Risk, and Engineering throughout the lifecycle, from product ideation and distributed systems design to high-availability deployment and ongoing system evolution.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field and 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in engineering management leading software engineering teams; or a master’s degree in a related technical field and 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in engineering management.
Track record of zero-to-one product delivery, taking new platform capabilities from concept through production rollout with active users.
Expertise in distributed systems design, including resilient microservices, API contracts, and handling consistency, idempotency, and failure modes in high-volume workflows.
Technical depth to evaluate architecture proposals, lead rigorous design reviews, and maintain high standards for software maintainability and system health.
Cross-functional leadership and ability to align Product, Design, Compliance, Risk, and Operations partners autonomously to deliver business outcomes.
Familiarity with JVM-based stacks such as Java, Kotlin, and Spring Boot, and cloud-native infrastructure such as Kubernetes, AWS or GCP, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, including ability to explain complex system trade-offs to executive stakeholders and partner teams.
Experience cultivating psychological safety, mentorship, and high-performance standards within engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience in FinTech, InsurTech, consumer insurance workflows, or highly regulated financial ecosystems.
Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka, Temporal.io, or AWS Step Functions.

Responsibilities

Lead team building, organizational design, talent acquisition, performance management, and career development across multiple engineering squads.
Guide architectural strategy and delivery of highly scalable, fault-tolerant platform services in a cloud-native production environment.
Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations to translate member needs and strategic business goals into resilient technical solutions.
Identify, evaluate, and implement architectural patterns and frameworks to improve system reliability, maintainability, and operational elegance.
Establish operational excellence practices, including automated testing, observability through logging, metrics, and tracing, and incident mitigation across team services.
Coach and mentor mid-level to senior software engineers and engineering leads, supporting technical excellence and clear career progression.
Facilitate technical design reviews, navigate architectural trade-offs, and establish shared engineering standards across partner domains.
Communicate roadmaps, architectural trade-offs, and system health to cross-functional partners and senior leadership.