Staff Software Engineer, AI Accelerated SDLC

The Role:

We are looking for a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to join our Builder Tools engineering organization with a mission to enable SoFi engineers to elegantly solve this role you will have the opportunity to directly impact influence and lead the direction and architecture of our next gen AI-powered SDLC and elevate developer experience through AI enabled workflows tooling and practices. You will get the chance to define and take on complex and interesting problems as part of a fast-paced highly collaborative organization. The ideal candidate will be a mentor technical leader and a team player who is hands-on and comfortable driving solutions from initial architecture to implementation and adoption with a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery.

What Youll Do:

• Technical leadership - Provide leadership for technical architecture and design implementation delivery and operations of AI enabled tools agents and workflows across the SDLC including plan code test build deploy observe and remediate.
• Innovate - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation in developer tooling and advancements including AI assisted developer productivity flows.
• Exemplary Practitioner - Be a subject matter expert for one or more developer tooling domains including operational excellence.
• Mentor - Collaborate with engineers in the team provide mentorship and domain expertise to enhance the overall technical capabilities of the team..
• Continuous Improvement - Contribute to creating a culture of continuous learning data-driven decisions and improvements. Proactively identify and manage risks.
• Collaborate Build strong working relationships with coworkers and cross-organizational 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.
• 8 years software development experience.
• Experience developing in a cloud environment (ex: AWS) using containers (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) cloud-native technologies service meshes (e.g. Istio Envoy) CI/CD and automated testing.
• Expertise - Expertise in AI tools (e.g. Claude Code Windsurf Cursor) infrastructure (e.g. MCP AWS Bedrock RAGs vector dbs) and agent frameworks (e.g. Langchain Langgraph CrewAI)
• Design - Strong understanding of software design principles and distributed systems architecture.
• Problem solving - Strong problem solving and programming fundamentals (algorithms data structures).
• Coding Skills - Proven coding skills (e.g. Java Kotlin Python) delivering large scale systems with infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform).
• Project Ownership - Ability to own manage and deliver projects 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 technical and non-technical members and proven skills to operate effectively in a cross-functional team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with security compliance and risk management in cloud environments.
• Experience with monitoring and logging (e.g. Datadog Elastic Splunk).
• Experience with container orchestration (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) and networking.

Required Experience:

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