Staff Software Engineer

SoFi•Frisco, TX

About The Position

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Risk Engineering team and help build the next generation of internal platforms that support risk, compliance, and business decision-making. This role will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining full stack applications that combine data from Snowflake, AI infrastructure, visualization dashboards, and business logic integrations into reliable, scalable products used by internal business partners. This is a high-impact hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who can operate across the stack, understand complex infrastructure, translate business needs into durable technical solutions, and mentor other engineers through strong architecture, code quality, and execution practices.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building production full stack applications
Strong backend engineering skills, including API design, service architecture, data modeling, and integration with enterprise systems
Capable frontend engineering experience building user-facing applications, dashboards, or workflow tools with modern web technologies
Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, observability, deployment patterns, and operational excellence
Hands-on experience working with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse platforms
Experience building data-driven applications, analytics workflows, or visualization dashboards for business users
Familiarity with AI infrastructure, LLM-enabled applications, model-serving patterns, or AI workflow integrations
Strong understanding of security, access control, data handling, and enterprise application design principles
Proven ability to lead technical design for complex systems and influence engineering direction across a team
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through thoughtful review, coaching, and example-setting
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to work directly with business stakeholders, clarify ambiguous requirements, and explain technical tradeoffs clearly

Nice To Haves

Experience in risk, compliance, financial services, lending, fraud, controls, audit, or regulated environments
Experience with BI, dashboarding, or data visualization tools and frameworks
Experience designing human-in-the-loop AI workflows, document intelligence systems, or business process automation tools
Experience with workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, or data pipeline integrations
Experience building internal platforms that serve multiple business teams or operational functions
Experience with governance, lineage, auditability, and controls for data-intensive applications

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain full stack internal applications that support risk, compliance, and business workflows
Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and data integrations that connect application logic with Snowflake and other enterprise data platforms
Build intuitive frontend experiences, visualization dashboards, and workflow tools that help business users interpret data and complete operational tasks efficiently
Integrate AI infrastructure and AI-enabled capabilities into internal applications where they can improve productivity, automation, insight generation, or decision support
Partner closely with business stakeholders to understand needs, clarify requirements, and deliver features that solve real operational problems
Translate ambiguous business processes into clear technical designs, system workflows, data models, and implementation plans
Own architecture and technical direction for complex application components, including infrastructure, reliability, observability, security, and maintainability
Establish strong engineering practices for full stack development, testing, release management, monitoring, and operational support
Mentor engineers across the team through technical guidance, design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing
Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce operational burden, improve performance, and increase developer productivity
Collaborate with cross-functional partners including risk, compliance, data, security, infrastructure, and product stakeholders