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Lead the evolution of trading infrastructure at SoFi Invest, focusing on high-performance systems, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration.
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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.
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the SoFi Invest team and help lead the evolution of our Trading Infrastructure platform. Our systems enable members to buy and sell stocks and options in real time, power downstream settlement and reporting, and ensure compliance with strict financial regulations.
In this role, you will serve as a key architect and technical leader—driving forward our systems design, shaping our engineering culture, mentoring a team of engineers, and collaborating across the broader Invest organization to deliver scalable, reliable, and performant trading systems.
If you’re passionate about solving complex technical problems and building resilient systems that serve millions of users, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
What You’ll Do:
Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for our trading infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scale, and future extensibility.
- Lead critical architectural efforts, including system redesigns, platform migrations, and service decomposition for trading flows and market connectivity.
- Contribute high-quality code and set the bar for software design, performance, and operational excellence.
- Platform Ownership
- Design and deliver highly available, low-latency backend services that support order management, routing, settlement, and real-time trading constraints.
- Identify and remediate systemic bottlenecks, architecture weaknesses, and scaling limitations.
- Ensure robust observability and operational readiness across services, championing standards in logging, monitoring, and alerting.
- Own complex incident resolution and guide teams on root-cause analysis.
- Mentorship & Influence
- Act as a technical mentor and sounding board for engineers at all levels; lead by example in design reviews and technical decision-making.
- Champion engineering best practices, system design maturity, and operational excellence across the Invest group.
- Foster a culture of learning, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Cross-Team Collaboration
- Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and Compliance partners to translate business requirements into reliable, auditable systems.
- Collaborate with peer engineers across SoFi to align platform capabilities and infrastructure patterns.
- Lead technical working groups and influence roadmaps that span multiple teams.
What You’ll Need:
- Experience & Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 2+ years in a technical leadership or equivalent staff/principal engineering role.
- Technical Expertise
- Proficiency in JVM-based languages (Java or Kotlin preferred); familiarity with Spring Boot or equivalent frameworks.
- Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems principles.
- Experience working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud-native tooling, containerization, and infrastructure as code (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.).
- Leadership & Collaboration
- Demonstrated ability to drive large-scale cross-functional initiatives, collaborate effectively with stakeholders, and balance business priorities with technical constraints.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including executives, product managers, and junior engineers.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience with trading protocols (e.g., FIX), clearing systems, or market data feeds.
- Familiarity with latency-sensitive or real-time financial systems.
- Prior work in a high-growth fintech or exchange environment.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Work on real-time systems that directly power SoFi’s investment products and touch millions of members.
- Collaborate with smart, kind engineers who take pride in high-quality systems and care about the impact of their work.
- Shape the next generation of SoFi’s trading platform—and help our members get their money right.
- Work for a values-driven company that believes our people are our greatest differentiator. When we take care of our people, they take care of our members. Learn more: https://www.sofi.com/values/
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!
SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.New York applicants: Notice of Employee RightsSoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [email protected].Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.Internal Employees
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Top Skills
AWS
Docker
Java
Kotlin
Kubernetes
Postgres
Spring Boot
Terraform
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