Senior Engineering Manager, Protect

SoFi Tech Solutions•Seattle, WA

10d•$172,800 - $297,000

About The Position

As the Senior Software Engineering Manager for the Protect team, you will lead the engineering organization building SoFi Tech Solutions’ next-generation Insurance platform. You will set technical and operational direction for a rapidly expanding, mission-critical business line, with greenfield core platform architecture and direct business impact. The role offers the opportunity to shape long-term platform capabilities, architecture, and engineering culture across the organization. You will cultivate engineering teams that value diverse perspectives and create an environment where team members can contribute and grow. You will champion continuous learning, iterative experimentation, end-to-end ownership, and technical curiosity. Working closely with Product, Design, Risk, and Engineering, you will engage throughout the product lifecycle—from 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; alternatively, a master’s degree in a related technical field and 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in engineering management.
Proven 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 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.
Demonstrated cross-functional leadership, including autonomously aligning Product, Design, Compliance, Risk, and Operations partners to deliver business outcomes.
Familiarity with JVM-based stacks such as Java, Kotlin, and Spring Boot, and modern cloud-native infrastructure such as Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the 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 domain 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 deliver 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 automated testing, observability practices including logging, metrics, and tracing, and incident mitigation practices across team services.
Coach and mentor mid-level to senior software engineers and engineering leads, fostering 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.