Senior Engineering Manager, Protect

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Who we are:

As the Senior Software Engineering Manager for the Protect team you will lead the engineering organization building our next-generation Insurance platform. You will establish technical and operational direction for a rapidly expanding mission-critical business line at SoFi where core platform architecture is greenfield and business impact is direct and tangible. This is an opportunity to shape long-term platform capabilities architecture and engineering culture across the organization.

You thrive on cultivating engineering teams that value diverse perspectives and foster environments where every team member can contribute and grow. You champion continuous learning lead iterative experimentation take end-to-end ownership and inspire ongoing technical curiosity. At SoFi we hold deep conviction in tight partnership across Product Design Risk and Engineering; you will engage across the entire lifecyclefrom product ideation and distributed systems design to high-availability deployment and continuous system evolution.

What youll do:

• Lead team building organizational design talent acquisition performance management and career development across multiple engineering squads.

• Guide architectural strategy and lead the delivery of highly scalable fault-tolerant platform services in a cloud-native production environment.

• Partner with Product Management Design Data Science Compliance and Operations to translate member needs and strategic business goals into resilient technical solutions.

• Identify evaluate and implement modern architectural patterns and frameworks to enhance system reliability maintainability and operational elegance.

• Champion operational excellence establishing robust automated testing observability (logging metrics tracing) and incident mitigation practices across all team services.

• Coach and mentor mid-level to senior software engineers and engineering leads fostering a culture of technical excellence and clear career progression.

• Facilitate constructive technical design reviews navigate architectural trade-offs and establish shared engineering standards across partner domains.

• Communicate roadmaps architectural trade-offs and system health effectively with cross-functional partners and senior leadership.

• Education & Minimum Experience Requirements: Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related technical field 10 years of software engineering experience including at least 4 years in engineering management leading teams of software engineers (OR Masters Degree in a related technical field 8 years of software engineering experience including at least 4 years in engineering management).

• Proven track record of zero-to-one product delivery taking new platform capabilities from concept through production rollout with active users.

• Exceptional distributed systems design expertiseable to design resilient microservices define API contracts and navigate consistency idempotency and failure modes in high-volume workflows.

• Demonstrated technical depthcapable of evaluating architecture proposals leading rigorous design reviews and maintaining a high standard for software maintainability and system health.

• Proven cross-functional leadershipdemonstrated ability to align Product Design Compliance Risk and Operations partners autonomously to deliver business outcomes.

• Familiarity with JVM-based stacks (Java Kotlin Spring Boot) and modern cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes AWS/GCP Docker Terraform CI/CD pipelines).

• Excellent communication and presentation skillsable to articulate complex system trade-offs clearly to executive stakeholders and partner teams.

• Experience cultivating psychological safety mentorship and high-performance standards within engineering teams.

• Direct domain experience in FinTech InsurTech consumer insurance workflows or highly regulated financial ecosystems.

• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms (e.g. Apache Kafka AWS Step Functions).