Principal Web Platform Engineer
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Job Description
The role:
Were looking for a highly experienced Principal Web Platform FrontEnd Engineer to lead and establish a new team at SoFi called Web Core. This team will be central to scaling our 80 consumerfacing and internal web applications. In this role youll drive the design architecture and development of platformlevel tools libraries documentation and frontend patterns that power our web ecosystem.
As a handson technical leader youll shape the future of SoFis web platform infrastructureenabling consistency performance and scalability across products. Youll collaborate closely with engineering product design infrastructure and executive leadership to define and execute a strategic vision that supports companywide goals.
The team will be an AIfirst team adopting LLM/agenticpowered technologies to accelerate and scale our web platform. An engineer should ideally be excited about learning and integrating with these new tools.
What youll do:
- Lead the architecture and development of reusable frontend platform tools SDKs and shared libraries.
- Design and maintain systems that improve developer experience across CI/CD testing and deployment pipelines.
- Define standards and best practices for performance accessibility and design system adoption.
- Partner with crossfunctional teams to drive adoption and alignment of core platform capabilities.
- Tackle complex technical and organizational challenges that span teams and products.
- Mentor engineers across the org championing engineering excellence and knowledgesharing.
What youll need:
- Deep expertise in frontend engineering 10 years) with a strong focus on scalable web platforms.
- Proven experience designing and building reusable SDKs UI libraries and platform APIs.
- Expertise in modern frontend frameworks (React preferred) build tooling and testing frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines web performance optimization and accessibility standards.
- Excellent crossfunctional communication and leadership skills.
- Experience with mobileweb and responsive web frameworks.
Nice to have:
- Experience with monorepos and frontend infrastructure tooling.
- Familiarity with microfrontend patterns and federated module systems.
- Strong instincts for developer experience and system design at scale.
- Experience building GraphQL infrastructure and models.
Required Experience:
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Employment Type
Full Time
