Staff Software Engineer, Digital Identity Identity Core

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Who we are:

The Team

The Digital Identity Platform collects protects and distributes the critical data that enables SoFi to recognize and support its members as they move through every product and feature. Digital Identity is the virtual representation of a persons physical identity the digital attributes essential for customer identification relationship & entitlement and authorization (granting access to resources). If you are passionate about working on the platform that every SoFi product depends on to know its customers this is the team. Our teams tech stack is Java/Kotlin PostgreSQL Kubernetes ArgoCD Datadog Snowflake. For AI based development we use Claude Code Cursor Windsurf etc.

The Role

You focus on software features and systems anchored on a team but interacting across teams to deliver outcomes. Problems you tackle are broadly defined you identify the specific solutions. You think 612 months ahead about system evolution and set standards for your teams engineering SoFis AI-native environment you produce structured critiques of AI-generated architecture identify distributed systems failure modes that AI consistently misses and define how your team uses AI tools effectively. When needed you lead cross-functionally to deliver business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design software that addresses both current and future business needs; promote efficient development clarity reusability testability and reliability
• Set coding standards and best practices for the team including standards for AI-assisted development when to use AI how to verify what to own
• Produce structured critiques of AI-generated distributed system designs identifying race conditions incorrect consistency models silent data loss and improper failure handling
• Participate in group-level strategic planning and resource prioritization representing the teams perspective; align team projects with group direction
• Lead team design reviews; teammates recognize that your input improves results and seek your feedback
• Simplify the teams systems avoiding unnecessary complexity; enable easy integrations across teams; optimize for long-term impact
• Frame and navigate trade-offs in technology choices with a pragmatic value-focused perspective on when to adopt vs. invent
• Drive operational excellence: automate and streamline build deployment testing and maintenance; identify patterns in bugs and incidents to propose systemic improvements
• Mentor teammates proactively to grow their skillsets and impact providing meaningful feedback from a well-calibrated perspective
  
  

What Youll Need

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 6-10 years of professional software development experience
• Advanced expertise in writing code consistently demonstrating best practices with clear and exemplary usage of their teams software languages
• Advanced expertise in how team components contribute to broader system architecture; recognizes and makes trade-offs in component interactions
• Demonstrated ability to identify and critique architectural flaws in AI-generated code race conditions data consistency issues incorrect failure handling
• Experience with 612 month strategic thinking; setting team priorities and driving operational excellence improvements
• Domain knowledge in their product area informing decision making and design
• Proven ability to lead cross-functionally and represent the team in technical discussions
• Strong focus on operational excellence with a track record of identifying systemic improvement patterns
• Prior experience with front-end development using Typescript and frameworks like ReactJs/AngularJs NodeJs will be nice to have.