Senior Software Engineering Manager - SoFi

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team within SoFi Money, responsible for delivering the core banking experience for our members — including checking, savings, monthly statements, and tax reporting systems. This role requires deep technical expertise in building distributed, fault-tolerant backend systems that can scale to support our members with high reliability and data integrity. You will be responsible for driving architectural decisions, establishing engineering best practices, and partnering closely with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance, performance, and member experience are never compromised. If you're passionate about solving complex backend challenges and leading teams to deliver foundational banking capabilities at scale, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

The ideal candidate is a technical and innovative leader who can both drive change through others, and guide the overall vision of their team as well as the broader organization. We are looking for engineering leaders who can bring fresh perspectives, thought leadership, vision and help us scale for the future. Those with a high sense of ownership, empathy, and disruption will thrive in our team, especially those who inspire others to bring their best to our mission. At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation, implementation, deployment, continued improvement and evolution.

What You’ll Do

• Own team building and management, including hiring and team performance
• Lead the development and testing of our systems and services
• Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product
• Help translate user stories into technical solutions
• Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
• Mentor engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
• Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field
• 8+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
• Our core stack is Java/Kotlin/Spring/PostgreSQL/React/Flutter
• Our data stack is Python/DBT/Snowflake
• 4+ years Java, Kotlin or Scala experience and an understanding of relational databases and ORMs
• 4+ years management experience
• The ability to maintain code quality, performance, and sound architectural practices across teams
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
• Exceptional sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
• Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features.

Nice To Have

• Experience working in highly regulated environments
• Machine Learning and automated decision experience 
• Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems
• Good understanding of SOLID practices