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Staff Software Engineer, Invest
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SoFi This range is provided by SoFi. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
$153,600.00/yr - $264,000.00/yr 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 Role
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the SoFi Invest team. SoFi Invest is SoFi’s retail investment platform that includes our market-leading robo-advisor, and online brokerage (stock, ETF, and mutual funds trading) products. 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 SoFi organization to deliver scalable, reliable, and performant trading systems. 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). 6+ years of professional software development experience. 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 business stakeholders, 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 investing platform—and help our members get their money right. 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. 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.
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Staff Software Engineer, Invest
role at
SoFi This range is provided by SoFi. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
$153,600.00/yr - $264,000.00/yr 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 Role
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the SoFi Invest team. SoFi Invest is SoFi’s retail investment platform that includes our market-leading robo-advisor, and online brokerage (stock, ETF, and mutual funds trading) products. 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 SoFi organization to deliver scalable, reliable, and performant trading systems. 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). 6+ years of professional software development experience. 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 business stakeholders, 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 investing platform—and help our members get their money right. 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. 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.
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