Senior Engineering Manager, Protect

SoFi • Seattle, WA

10d • $172,800 - $297,000

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager on the Protect team, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for building SoFi's next-generation Insurance platform. You will set the technical vision and execution strategy for a critical, high-growth business function with relatively greenfield architecture and significant business impact. You will foster an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives, continuous learning, responsible experimentation, accountability, and curiosity. Working closely with Product, Design, Compliance, and Operations, you will lead the complete product development lifecycle, from conceptualization through deployment, scaling, and ongoing enhancement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline and 8 years of professional software engineering experience; alternatively, a Master’s degree and 6 years of experience.
• At least 4 years formally leading and managing software engineering teams.
• Expertise in distributed systems, including designing scalable microservices, defining resilient API contracts, and addressing data consistency, idempotency, and failure modes in high-volume environments.
• Technical acumen to lead architecture design reviews, evaluate technical proposals, and maintain high engineering quality standards across modern cloud systems.
• Demonstrated experience taking products from concept to production and serving real-world users.
• Track record of building inclusive, high-trust engineering teams, developing talent, and managing performance effectively.
• Ability to build consensus and drive alignment across Product, Operations, Risk, and Compliance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including explaining complex system trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Nice To Haves

• 10 or more years of overall software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with JVM-based stacks such as Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot, and cloud-native infrastructure such as AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
• Domain expertise in FinTech, InsurTech, consumer payments, policy administration systems, or regulated financial services.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering group, including hiring, team structure, performance coaching, and career development for mid-to-senior engineers.
• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and resilient delivery of scalable, distributed insurance platform services and API contracts.
• Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, and Risk to translate product roadmaps into technical roadmaps and business outcomes.
• Establish modern testing methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, observability dashboards, and incident response runbooks to drive operational excellence.
• Evaluate architectural patterns and technologies to improve system maintainability, latency, fault tolerance, and security.
• Champion responsible AI-assisted engineering practices that accelerate delivery, improve code quality, reduce administrative toil, and safeguard sensitive data.
• Communicate technical roadmaps, architectural trade-offs, and project status clearly to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Lead the product development lifecycle from conceptualization through deployment, scaling, and ongoing enhancement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior