SoFi · 2 months ago
Principal Software Engineer, Builder Tools
CA - San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
10+ years expSoFi is a next-generation financial services company and national bank that is transforming personal finance. The Principal Software Engineer will lead the technical strategy and architecture for SoFi's internal developer platform, enhancing developer experience through AI-enabled development practices and tooling.
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Responsibilities
Provide thought leadership for the technical architecture, design, and delivery for AI enabled tools across the SDLC including plan, code, test, build, deploy, observe and remediate
Serve as a key strategic technical advisor to leadership, influencing roadmap, participating in planning sessions, and ensuring alignment with business objectives
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and advancements in AI assisted developer productivity flows
Be a subject matter expert, role model practitioner across the developer tooling domain including operational excellence
Drive observability strategy and practices, including SLOs, and guiding teams on critical incident resolution, root-cause analysis and remediation
Collaborate with engineers across the Platform organization, provide mentorship, and expertise to enhance the overall technical capabilities of teams
Contribute to creating a culture of continuous learning, data-driven decisions and improvements
Proactively identify and manage risks
Build strong working relationships with coworkers, cross-organizational leaders, including engineering managers and product managers
Be a change agent influencing and scaling the adoption of AI-enabled developer tooling and best practices across the engineering organization
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
10+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership role
Deep expertise in AI enabled developer productivity, building Internal Developer Platforms and applications leveraging LLMs, engineering excellence metrics (e.g., DORA, SPACE), build systems for JVM ecosystem (e.g., Gradle, Bazel), and CI/CD systems (e.g., Gitlab, BuildKite, ArgoCD)
Experience developing in a cloud environment (AWS), using containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Envoy)
Proven track record devising and launching creative solutions to developer experience challenges
Strong understanding of software design principles, and distributed systems architecture
Proven proficiency shipping enterprise applications in one or more programming languages (Go, Python, Java, Kotlin, etc.)
Exceptional verbal and written communication, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences at varying levels, including executives, cross-functional managers, and engineers
Ability to own, manage and deliver complex projects from scoping through launch. Experience leading Agile development practices
Preferred
Familiarity with security standards, compliance (SOC2, PCI, HIPAA) and risk management frameworks relevant to financial and regulated industries
Benefits
Comprehensive and competitive benefits
Company
SoFi
SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$12.25BKey Investors
Fortress Investment GroupPGIMQatar Investment Authority
2025-12-04Post Ipo Equity· $1.5B
2025-07-29Post Ipo Equity· $1.5B
2025-04-17Post Ipo Debt· $3.2B
Leadership Team
Anthony Noto
CEO
Jeremy Rishel
Chief Technology Officer
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