Staff Software Engineer, Invest

The Role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the SoFi Invest team. SoFi Invest is SoFis retail investment platform that includes our market-leading robo-advisor and online brokerage (stock ETF and mutual funds trading) products.

In this role you will serve as a key architect and technical leaderdriving forward our systems design shaping our engineering culture mentoring a team of engineers and collaborating across the broader SoFi organization to deliver scalable reliable and performant trading youre passionate about solving complex technical problems and building resilient systems that serve millions of users this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

What Youll Do:

• Technical Leadership & Strategy
  • Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for our trading infrastructure focusing on reliability scale and future extensibility.
  • Lead critical architectural efforts including system redesigns platform migrations and service decomposition for trading flows and market connectivity.
  • Contribute high-quality code and set the bar for software design performance and operational excellence.
    
    

• Platform Ownership
• Design and deliver highly available low-latency backend services that support order management routing settlement and real-time trading constraints.
• Identify and remediate systemic bottlenecks architecture weaknesses and scaling limitations.
• Ensure robust observability and operational readiness across services championing standards in logging monitoring and alerting.
• Own complex incident resolution and guide teams on root-cause analysis.
  
  
• Mentorship & Influence
• Act as a technical mentor and sounding board for engineers at all levels; lead by example in design reviews and technical decision-making.
• Champion engineering best practices system design maturity and operational excellence across the Invest group.
• Foster a culture of learning inclusion and continuous improvement.
  
  
• Cross-Team Collaboration
• Partner with Product Managers Engineering Managers and Compliance partners to translate business requirements into reliable auditable systems.
• Collaborate with peer engineers across SoFi to align platform capabilities and infrastructure patterns.
• Lead technical working groups and influence roadmaps that span multiple teams.
  
  

What Youll Need:

• Experience & Education
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 6 years of professional software development experience.
• Technical Expertise
• Proficiency in JVM-based languages (Java or Kotlin preferred); familiarity with Spring Boot or equivalent frameworks.
• Strong understanding of microservices event-driven architectures and distributed systems principles.
• Experience working with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud-native tooling containerization and infrastructure as code (AWS Docker Kubernetes Terraform etc.).
  
  
• Leadership & Collaboration
• Demonstrated ability to drive large-scale cross-functional initiatives collaborate effectively with stakeholders and balance business priorities with technical constraints.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences including business stakeholders product managers and junior engineers.
  
  

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with trading protocols (e.g. FIX) clearing systems or market data feeds.
• Familiarity with latency-sensitive or real-time financial systems.
• Prior work in a high-growth fintech or exchange environment

Why Youll Love Working Here:

• Work on real-time systems that directly power SoFis investment products and touch millions of members.
• Collaborate with smart kind engineers who take pride in high-quality systems and care about the impact of their work.
• Shape the next generation of SoFis investing platformand help our members get their money right.

Required Experience:

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