The Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Builder Tools engineering organization with a mission to enable SoFi engineers to innovate in fintech and elegantly solve problems. In this role you will be a key contributor to the design development and scalability of our developer productivity tooling. You will elevate developer experience by enabling engineers with foundational systems. You will take on complex and interesting problems in a fastpaced and highly collaborative organization. The ideal candidate will be a deeply technical and curious engineer who is comfortable owning solutions from initial design to implementation and ongoing operational excellence with a strong sense of ownership and passion for quality.
What Youll Do:
- Technical leadership Provide leadership for the technical design delivery and operational excellence of code build CI/CD platforms and related developer tooling.
- Innovate Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to drive innovation in developer tooling and advancements including AI assisted developer productivity flows.
- Expertise Become a subject matter expert for one or more developer tooling domains including operational excellence aspects.
- Mentor Collaborate with engineers in the team provide mentorship and share domain expertise to enhance the overall technical capabilities of the team.
- Continuous Improvement Contribute to creating a culture of continuous learning datadriven decisions and improvements. Proactively identify and manage risks.
- Collaborate Build strong working relationships with coworkers and crossorganizational teams.
- Influence Implement and influence the adoption of developer tooling and best practices.
What Youll Need:
- Experience Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related technical field.
- 5 years software development experience.
- Experience developing in a cloud environment (AWS) using containers (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) cloudnative technologies and service meshes (e.g. Istio Envoy).
- Expertise Expertise in one more of the following domains: build systems for JVM ecosystem (e.g. Gradle Bazel) AI assisted developer tools (e.g. CoPilot Amazon Q) and CI/CD systems (e.g. ArgoCD Gitlab Runners BuildKite).
- Coding Skills Proven coding skills (e.g. Java Kotlin Python) delivering large scale systems with infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform).
- Problem solving Strong problem solving and programming fundamentals (algorithms data structures).
- Design Strong understanding of software design principles and distributed systems architecture.
- Project Ownership Ability to independently plan manage and own deliverables from scoping through launch. Experience working with Agile development processes.
- Strong Interpersonal skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to collaborate well with a team and proven skills to operate effectively in crossfunctional teams.
Nice to have:
- Experience with monitoring tracing and logging systems (e.g. Datadog Elastic Splunk).
- Experience with security compliance and risk management in cloud and fintech environments.
Required Experience:
Senior IC