About the position
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Builder Tools engineering organization with a mission to enable SoFi engineers to innovate in fintech and elegantly solve problems. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the design, development and scalability of our developer productivity tooling. You will elevate developer experience by enabling engineers with foundational systems. You will take on complex and interesting problems in a fast-paced, and highly collaborative organization. The ideal candidate will be a deeply technical and curious engineer who is comfortable owning solutions from initial design to implementation and ongoing operational excellence, with a strong sense of ownership and passion for quality.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership for the technical design, delivery and operational excellence of code, build, CI/CD platforms, and related developer tooling.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation in developer tooling, and advancements including AI assisted developer productivity flows.
- Become a subject matter expert for one or more developer tooling domains, including operational excellence aspects.
- Collaborate with engineers in the team, provide mentorship, and share domain expertise to enhance the overall technical capabilities of the team.
- Contribute to creating a culture of continuous learning, data-driven decisions and improvements. Proactively identify and manage risks.
- Build strong working relationships with coworkers and cross-organizational teams.
- Implement and influence the adoption of developer tooling and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years software development experience.
- Experience developing in a cloud environment (AWS), using containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Envoy).
- Expertise in one more of the following domains: build systems for JVM ecosystem (e.g., Gradle, Bazel), AI assisted developer tools (e.g., CoPilot, Amazon Q), and CI/CD systems (e.g., ArgoCD, Gitlab Runners, BuildKite).
- Proven coding skills (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python) delivering large scale systems with infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform).
- Strong problem solving and programming fundamentals (algorithms, data structures).
- Strong understanding of software design principles, and distributed systems architecture.
- Ability to independently plan, manage and own deliverables, from scoping through launch. Experience working with Agile development processes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to collaborate well with a team, and proven skills to operate effectively in cross-functional teams.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with monitoring, tracing and logging systems (e.g. Datadog, Elastic, Splunk).
- Experience with security, compliance, and risk management in cloud and fintech environments.
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.
