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Base pay range
$192,000.00/yr - $330,000.00/yr
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The role:
Were looking for a highly experienced Principal Web Platform Front-End Engineer to lead and establish a new team at SoFi called Web Core. This team will be central to scaling our 80+ consumer-facing and internal web applications. In this role, youll drive the design, architecture, and development of platform-level tools, libraries, documentation, and front-end patterns that power our web ecosystem.
As a hands-on technical leader, youll shape the future of SoFis web platform infrastructureenabling consistency, performance, and scalability across products. Youll collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, infrastructure, and executive leadership to define and execute a strategic vision that supports company-wide goals.
The team will be an AI-first team, adopting LLM/agentic-powered technologies to accelerate and scale our web platform. An engineer should ideally be excited about learning and integrating with these new tools.
What youll do:
- Lead the architecture and development of reusable front-end platform tools, SDKs, and shared libraries.
- Design and maintain systems that improve developer experience across CI/CD, testing, and deployment pipelines.
- Define standards and best practices for performance, accessibility, and design system adoption.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to drive adoption and alignment of core platform capabilities.
- Tackle complex technical and organizational challenges that span teams and products.
- Mentor engineers across the org, championing engineering excellence and knowledge-sharing.
- Deep expertise in front-end engineering (10+ years), with a strong focus on scalable web platforms.
- Proven experience designing and building reusable SDKs, UI libraries, and platform APIs.
- Expertise in modern front-end frameworks (React preferred), build tooling, and testing frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, web performance optimization, and accessibility standards.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and leadership skills.
- Experience with mobile-web and responsive web frameworks.
- Experience with monorepos and frontend infrastructure tooling.
- Familiarity with micro-frontend patterns and federated module systems.
- Strong instincts for developer experience and system design at scale.
- Experience building GraphQL infrastructure and models.
The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidates 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.
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SoFi 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
Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
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Seniority level
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
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