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.
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 lifecycle—from product ideation and distributed systems design to high-availability deployment and continuous system evolution.
What you’ll 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: Bachelor’s 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 Master’s 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 expertise—able to design resilient microservices, define API contracts, and navigate consistency, idempotency, and failure modes in high-volume workflows.
Demonstrated technical depth—capable of evaluating architecture proposals, leading rigorous design reviews, and maintaining a high standard for software maintainability and system health.
Proven cross-functional leadership—demonstrated 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 skills—able 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, Temporal.io, AWS Step Functions).
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, plus 8 years of professional software engineering experience
- Master's degree in a related technical discipline plus 6 years of professional software engineering experience may substitute for the bachelor's requirement
- At least 4 years of formally leading and managing software engineering teams
- Expertise designing scalable distributed systems, microservices, resilient API contracts, data consistency, idempotency, and failure handling
- Technical leadership experience conducting architecture reviews and evaluating technical proposals across modern cloud systems
- Experience taking products from concept through production for real-world users
- Experience building inclusive, high-trust engineering teams, developing talent, and managing performance
- Ability to build consensus and alignment across Product, Operations, Risk, and Compliance
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including explaining complex technical trade-offs to nontechnical stakeholders and executives
- 10 or more years of overall software engineering experience
- Hands-on experience with Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
- Experience in FinTech, InsurTech, consumer payments, policy administration systems, or regulated financial services
- Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
SoFi wasn’t built to be a bank. Or a technology company. We were built for one mission: help people achieve financial independence so they can realize their ambitions. Redefining an entire industry isn’t easy work—and it’s not for the faint of heart. It takes a certain kind of team. People with diverse perspectives and expertise, united by a common sense of purpose. People willing to challenge assumptions but always do the right thing. People proving that innovation and responsibility don’t have to compete, but can come together to create something truly unconventional in the world. For the last eight years, we’ve been charting this new path forward. We call it The SoFi Way. At SoFi, we don’t just talk about culture: we live it. The SoFi Way is how we show up every day, how we make decisions, and how we build for our members, clients, and each other.
Why Work With Us
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation Fintech company using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront.
Gallery
SoFi Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
For the majority of our workforce who work on a hybrid schedule, the in-office requirement is a handful of days per month!
