Staff Software Engineer
SoFi
- Location
- TX - Frisco
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Staff
- Posted
- 2h ago
Skills
About this role
Employee Applicant Privacy Notice
Who we are
Shape a brighter financial future with us.
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
The role
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Risk Engineering team and help build the next generation of internal platforms that support risk, compliance, and business decision-making. This role will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining full stack applications that combine data from Snowflake, AI infrastructure, visualization dashboards, and business logic integrations into reliable, scalable products used by internal business partners.
This is a high-impact hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who can operate across the stack, understand complex infrastructure, translate business needs into durable technical solutions, and mentor other engineers through strong architecture, code quality, and execution practices.
What you'll do
• Design, build, and maintain full stack internal applications that support risk, compliance, and business workflows
• Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and data integrations that connect application logic with Snowflake and other enterprise data platforms
• Build intuitive frontend experiences, visualization dashboards, and workflow tools that help business users interpret data and complete operational tasks efficiently
• Integrate AI infrastructure and AI-enabled capabilities into internal applications where they can improve productivity, automation, insight generation, or decision support
• Partner closely with business stakeholders to understand needs, clarify requirements, and deliver features that solve real operational problems
• Translate ambiguous business processes into clear technical designs, system workflows, data models, and implementation plans
• Own architecture and technical direction for complex application components, including infrastructure, reliability, observability, security, and maintainability
• Establish strong engineering practices for full stack development, testing, release management, monitoring, and operational support
• Mentor engineers across the team through technical guidance, design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing
• Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce operational burden, improve performance, and increase developer productivity
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including risk, compliance, data, security, infrastructure, and product stakeholders
What you'll need
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building production full stack applications
• Strong backend engineering skills, including API design, service architecture, data modeling, and integration with enterprise systems
• Capable frontend engineering experience building user-facing applications, dashboards, or workflow tools with modern web technologies
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, observability, deployment patterns, and