SoFi · 20 hours ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Accelerated SDLC
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$173K/yr - $297K/yr
8+ years expSoFi is a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative technology to help members reach their financial goals. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead the direction and architecture of AI-powered software development lifecycle tools, enhancing developer experience through innovative workflows and practices.
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Responsibilities
Technical leadership - Provide thought leadership for technical architecture and design, implementation, delivery and operations of AI enabled tools, agents, and workflows across the SDLC including plan, code, test, build, deploy, observe and remediate
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 AI powered SDLC tooling, workflows 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
8+ years software development experience
Experience developing in a cloud environment (ex: AWS), using containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies, service meshes (e.g., Istio, Envoy), CI/CD and automated testing
2+ years of experience in AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Agent SDK, Prompts, Skills, Cursor), infrastructure (e.g., MCP, AWS Bedrock, RAGs, vector dbs) and agent frameworks (e.g. Langchain, Langgraph, CrewAI)
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 projects from scoping through launch. Experience working with Agile development processes
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to collaborate well with technical and non-technical members, and proven skills to operate effectively in a cross-functional team
Preferred
Experience with security, compliance, and risk management in cloud environments
Experience with monitoring and logging (e.g. Datadog, Elastic, Splunk)
Experience with container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and networking
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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