Staff Software Engineer, AI

The role

We are building a new AI engineering team with the mission of bringing the value of AI to SoFi Members. This team will play a key role in supporting our members financial journeys by developing new solutions to embed personalized financial insights into our products. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems with a passion for building products on the cutting edge. 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 through building deploying and continual improvement and evolution. We also pride ourselves on a philosophy of continuous learning and you should likewise be committed to furthering your own career growth as well as to providing mentorship for your fellow team members.

Key responsibilities

Drive technical architecture design decisions and cross-functional discussions for the productDeliver highly available and scalable services in a production environmentLead the design development and testing of systemsLead code and system design reviewsHelp translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutionsMentor other engineers support the technical culture and help grow the teamGenerate ideas for new initiatives and technologiesCommunicate with project leads product managers and other software developersConsistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge ingenuity and creativity.Develop and apply advanced technologies engineering principles theories and conceptsBroad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialtyTake initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 8 years programming experience on a modern stack
• Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / AWS/ PostgreSQL and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture. We are building a Python stack for AI.
• Experience working with new technologies in the AI stack such as building Agents creating MCP servers fine tuning models prompt engineering and performance evaluation
• Experience working with applications that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) such as integrating LLMs designing prompts or exploring their practical applications.
• You should have a strong understanding of relational databases and ORMs
• You should have worked on a SOA or microservice-based application
• Strong sense of ownership; driving a project from inception to completion
• Pragmatic approach towards handling tech debt versus shipping new features
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment refining designs together working through code reviews and managing pull requests

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