Senior Staff Software Engineer, Builder Tools

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The Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Builder Tools engineering organization with a mission to enable SoFi engineers to elegantly solve problems. In this role, you will have the opportunity to directly impact, influence and lead the direction and architecture of our developer tooling, and elevate developer experience by enabling engineers through foundational systems. You will get the chance to define, and take on complex and interesting problems as part of a fast-paced, highly collaborative organization. The ideal candidate will be a mentor, technical leader and a team player who is hands-on and comfortable driving solutions from initial architecture to implementation and adoption with a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery.

What You’ll Do:

• Technical leadership - Provide thought leadership for the technical architecture, design, implementation, delivery and operational excellence of code, build, CI/CD platforms, backend language frameworks and related developer tooling.

• Innovate - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation in developer tooling, and advancements including AI assisted developer productivity flows.

• Exemplary Practitioner - Be a subject matter expert for one or more developer tooling domains including operational excellence.

• Mentor - Collaborate with engineers in the team, provide mentorship, and domain expertise to enhance the overall technical capabilities of the team..

• Continuous Improvement - Contribute to creating a culture of continuous learning, data-driven decisions and improvements. Proactively identify and manage risks.

• Collaborate –Build strong working relationships with coworkers and cross-organizational teams.

• Influence - Influence and scale the adoption of developer tooling and best practices across the engineering organization.

What You’ll Need:

• 8+ years software development experience with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 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 AI assisted developer productivity tools (e.g., CoPilot, Amazon Q), build systems for JVM ecosystem (e.g., Gradle, Bazel), and CI/CD systems (e.g., Gitlab, BuildKite, ArgoCD).

• Strong understanding of software design principles, and distributed systems architecture.

• Strong problem solving and programming fundamentals (algorithms, data structures).

• Proven coding skills (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python) delivering large scale systems with infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform)

• Ability to own, manage and deliver complex projects from scoping through launch. Experience leading Agile development practices.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. Demonstrated ability to collaborate well with technical and non-technical members, and proven skills to operate effectively in a cross-functional team.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with security, compliance, and risk management in cloud environments.

• Experience with monitoring and logging (e.g. Datadog, Elastic, Splunk).

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!

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