Director, Software Engineering

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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 seeking a Director, Software Engineering to play a pivotal role in our Money product architecture transformation, focusing on the evolution of our banking core and the implementation of enhanced account structures, including readiness for new products like CDs, youth accounts, etc. This position involves building out and maturing our member-facing Money and Banking services, particularly in areas such as banking core, money business logic around payments, entitlements and E2E user experience. You'll be working within a highly collaborative environment where planning and executing through a unified campaign lens is essential due to the complexity and interdependencies of these initiatives.

At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design, and Engineering, and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying, and continual improvement and evolution - and you'll be working with an all-star team of talented engineers.

What you'll do:

1. Be on the front line of driving growth/adoption of our products
2. Grow and manage a large high-performing team with multiple senior managers and full-stack engineers.
3. Drive architecture and technically lead development of highly scalable modular E2E banking stack across UI, compliant business services, and banking core.
4. Identify and evaluate new patterns and technologies to improve the performance, maintainability, and scalability of our systems towards supporting the hockey stick growth of Money member sign-ups, deposits, and transactions.
5. Leverage SoFi's unique position as a Fintech and a Bank - design software architecture and data flows for scalable end-to-end web services and banking stack towards realization of the AWS of Fintech Goal and Top 10 Financial institution in US.
6. Lead the development and delivery of features with a Member-first mindset towards higher Member NPS and adoption.
7. Participate in shaping the technical architecture
8. Help translate user stories into technical solutions
9. Mentor engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
10. Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
11. Communicate with project leads, product managers, and other software developers

What you'll need:

1. Bachelor's Degree in a technical field
2. 7+ years of management experience or experience leading a large team
3. 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally on a modern stack
4. Maintain code quality, performance, and sound architectural principles
5. Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews, and managing pull requests
6. Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others, and get stuff done
7. Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
8. Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews, and managing pull requests
9. Superior communication skills, written and verbal.
10. Deep curiosity for how complex (financial) systems work, and an ability to internalize and analyze this information quickly
11. A blend of demonstrated business, product management, engineering, and execution skills
12. Passion for your customers! You do right by them, always
13. Experience in Fintech is a big plus

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate's experience, skills, and location.

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!

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