Staff Software Engineer, AI

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Senior level
Fintech • Mobile • Software • Financial Services
SoFi’s mission is to help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
The Role
Lead the AI engineering team to develop scalable solutions for personalized financial insights, mentor engineers, and drive product architecture.
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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 building a new AI engineering team with the mission of bringing the value of AI to SoFi Members.  This team will play a key role in supporting our member’s financial journeys by developing new solutions to embed personalized financial insights into our products.  The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems, with a passion for building products on the cutting edge.  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.  We also pride ourselves on a philosophy of continuous learning, and you should likewise be committed to furthering your own career growth as well as to providing mentorship for your fellow team members.

Key responsibilities

  • Drive technical architecture, design decisions and cross-functional discussions for the product
  • Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
  • Lead the design, development and testing of systems
  • Lead code and system design reviews
  • Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions
  • Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
  • Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
  • Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers
  • Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity
  • Develop and apply advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories, and concepts
  • Broad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialty
  • Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 8+ years programming experience on a modern stack
  • Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / AWS/ PostgreSQL, and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture.  We are building a Python stack for AI.
  • Experience working with new technologies in the AI stack, such as building Agents, creating MCP servers, fine tuning models, prompt engineering, and performance evaluation
  • Experience working with applications that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs), such as integrating LLMs, designing prompts, or exploring their practical applications.
  • You should have a strong understanding of relational databases and ORMs
  • You should have worked on a SOA or microservice-based application
  • Strong sense of ownership; driving a project from inception to completion
  • Pragmatic approach towards handling tech debt versus shipping new features
  • Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
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
If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.

Top Skills

AI
AWS
Java
Kotlin
Kubernetes
Large Language Models
Machine Learning
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Python
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Spring

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
4,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

For over a decade, SoFi has helped transform the Fintech industry by creating financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better, so they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions. Whether it’s owning a home, saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, or helping our members invest - SoFi is there every step of the way. Want to learn more about how it works? Check it out here: https://www.sofi.com/how-it-works/

Our core values are at the center of how we help our millions of members get their money right. They are our guiding principles for how we think about serving our members, building our company, and most importantly, how we work together. At SoFi, it’s not just what we do - but how we do it.

SoFi is also proud to be the naming rights partner of SoFi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams.

For more information, visit SoFi.com

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.

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