Senior Engineering Manager, Bank Platform

The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Manager Software Engineering to join SoFis Bank Platform organization and to step in at a defining moment. Youll own our Transaction Data Platform the central transactional infrastructure hub while working in close partnership with the Account Services team. This isnt a steady-state role. It is a seat at the table for the most consequential technical transformation the company has undertaken in years.

Our Transaction Data Platform is the backbone of our banking infrastructure. It ingests normalizes and distributes transaction events from multiple banking cores to every major SoFi product consumer banking investing credit and the member experience. Youll lead a focused squad anchored by senior engineers driving real-time reconciliation streams (the critical path for our banking core modernization program) its account provider strategy and a next-generation transaction enrichment framework. Youll also maintain close architectural alignment with Account Services which owns the unified financial data model and the account/transaction API surface. Cross-team coordination is not a footnote in this role it is the role.

At SoFi youll become part of a new kind of finance company whose ambition is to help our members achieve financial independence and reach their goals. We aim to be at the center of our members financial lives and to help every member get their money right. From student loan refinancing we expanded across loans wealth management and insurance then built a full-featured bank bringing members best-in-class checking and high-yield savings and the tools to get their money right. SoFi has achieved significant growth with ambitious plans ahead but to continue this growth we need great talent. And that starts with you.

What Youll Do:

• Lead the Transaction Platform engineering squad through the full development lifecycle with direct accountability for banking core modernization the companys most strategic technical program
• Own the technical roadmap and execution for the Transaction Platform: real-time event replication pipelines streaming transaction aggregation reconciliation infrastructure account provider integration and a next-generation transaction enrichment framework
• Establish a clear technical vision for the squad; guide and challenge senior architects raise the engineering bar and contribute to architecture and design decisions
• Serve as the primary stakeholder interface for partner teams consumer banking investments payments core banking and partner systems ensuring alignment is proactive dependencies are visible and commitments are honored
• Translate high-level OKRs into executable campaign and sprint objectives; drive structured planning cycles and hold the team accountable for well-specified high-quality delivery
• Identify and actively mitigate technical and delivery risk; exercise sound judgment on escalations and create focus and clarity for your team while maintaining full accountability
• Grow the team understand hiring needs define assessment criteria and build engineering depth capable of thriving in a high-ambiguity high-impact environment
• Define meaningful growth plans for each engineer on your team; invest consistently in coaching performance feedback and deliberate career development
• Challenge the status quo embrace innovation and drive the next chapter of our banking infrastructure

What Youll Need:

• Bachelors Degree ideally in a technical field but we understand great engineers come from all sorts of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience
• 5 years of experience designing building and operating scalable mission-critical distributed systems
• 4 years of engineering management experience including leading senior individual contributors and tech leads
• Demonstrated platform-building expertise: youve built or scaled infrastructure serving multiple product teams
• Strong technical depth comfortable engaging at the level your senior engineers work: event-driven systems streaming pipelines API design and complex data models
• Proven record of cross-functional execution: aligning multiple teams on shared milestones unblocking dependencies and delivering in ambiguous environments
• Experience hiring developing and retaining strong engineering talent; track record of raising the bar
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves get into the details and hold yourself and the team to a high standard
• Strong sense of ownership you drive programs from inception through delivery

Nice to Haves:

• Familiarity with banking domain systems particularly banking cores (Thought Machine Mambu or similar cloud-native cores)
• Hands-on experience with event streaming or real-time data infrastructure (Kinesis Kafka Apache Flink or similar)
• Exposure to core migration or large-scale platform modernization programs
• Working knowledge of common financial data models account/transaction APIs or payment rails (ACH Wire etc.)
• Experience in a regulated fintech or banking environment
• Background in Kotlin/Java Spring Boot or similar JVM-based backend systems

Required Experience:

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