Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience
CA - San Francisco; WA - Seattle·Posted today
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<div class="content-intro"><p><a href="https://www.sofi.com/sofi-employee-applicant-privacy-notice/" target="_blank"><strong>Employee Applicant Privacy Notice</strong></a></p> <p><strong>Who we are:</strong></p> <div> <p>Shape a brighter financial future with us.</p> <p>Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.</p> <p>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. <strong>Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.</strong></p> </div></div><p data-path-to-node="38"><strong data-path-to-node="38" data-index-in-node="0">The role:</strong></p> <p data-path-to-node="39">SoFi's AI Platform team builds the foundation that lets every engineer at SoFi ship faster, safer, and with more leverage from AI. Our AI Developer Experience (AI DevEx) team owns SoFi's interactive coding strategy and the underlying infrastructure: AI economics, coding harnesses and harness vending, our evaluation platform, the AI Gateway, and intelligent model routing. </p> <p data-path-to-node="39">As a founding Senior Staff Software Engineer, you'll be the technical lead and subject matter expert for this area across AI Platform: setting architecture, shaping the interactive coding strategy, and leading work across Autonomous Coding, CI/CD, Code Factory, and our customer engineering teams.</p> <p data-path-to-node="41"><strong data-path-to-node="41" data-index-in-node="0">What you’ll do:</strong></p> <ul data-path-to-node="42"> <li> <p data-path-to-node="42,0,0"><strong data-path-to-node="42,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Set Technical Direction:</strong> Define and drive the architecture for the enterprise AI Gateway, model routing, automated evaluation platform, and harness vending, ensuring seamless support for interactive and autonomous workflows across multiple business units.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="42,1,0"><strong data-path-to-node="42,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Shape Strategy & Roadmaps:</strong> Proactively identify systemic developer productivity bottlenecks, translate opportunities into a 12–24 month technical roadmap, and execute high-impact design and build initiatives.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="42,2,0"><strong data-path-to-node="42,2,0" data-index-in-node="0">Lead AI Economics Engineering:</strong> Architect cost models, metering systems, telemetry, and adaptive routing policies that balance model accuracy, latency, and operational spend across the engineering organization.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="42,3,0"><strong data-path-to-node="42,3,0" data-index-in-node="0">Drive Cross-Group Initiatives:</strong> Plan and technically lead initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams; establish shared interfaces and platform contracts with Autonomous Coding, CI/CD pipelines, and Code Factory.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="42,4,0"><strong data-path-to-node="42,4,0" data-index-in-node="0">Resolve Architectural Deficiencies:</strong> Identify and remediate root causes of complex architectural bottlenecks (latency, throughput, state management, dependencies) across distributed systems.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="42,5,0"><strong data-path-to-node="42,5,0" data-index-in-node="0">Evaluate Build-vs-Buy Choices:</strong> Continuously assess emerging AI tooling and foundational models, recommending vendor-neutral, future-proof integration patterns.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="42,6,0"><strong data-path-to-node="42,6,0" data-index-in-node="0">Represent Group Architecture:</strong> Lead department-level technical planning, establish architectural RFC standards, and facilitate rigorous design reviews across product areas.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="42,7,0"><strong data-path-to-node="42,7,0" data-index-in-node="0">Raise Operational Excellence:</strong> Set production standards for resilience, testing, and deployment; act as a lead incident resolver capable of coordinating responses to high-severity incidents and driving post-incident reviews to root-cause prevention.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="42,8,0"><strong data-path-to-node="42,8,0" data-index-in-node="0">Mentor & Elevate Talent:</strong> Actively coach and develop Senior (IC3) and Staff (IC4) engineers, cultivating an engineering culture of craft, ownership, and psychological safety.</p> </li> </ul> <p data-path-to-node="43"><strong data-path-to-node="43" data-index-in-node="0">What you’ll need:</strong></p> <ul data-path-to-node="44"> <li> <p data-path-to-node="44,0,0"><strong data-path-to-node="44,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Education & Minimum Experience Requirements:</strong> Bachelor’s Degree + 4+ Years of Experience <strong data-path-to-node="44,0,0" data-index-in-node="88">OR</strong> Master’s Degree + 3+ Years of Experience in software engineering, computer science,<span class=""> or a related technical field.</span></p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="44,1,0"><span class="">Proven track record of technical leadership on software initiatives spanning multiple teams and complex distributed architectures.</span></p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="44,2,0">Adept system design capability with large-scale, high-availability distributed systems, platform infrastructure, and cross-domain APIs.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="44,3,0">Hands-on engineering experience building with LLM-based architectures, model APIs, and AI-assisted development tools (coding agents, developer harnesses, prompt/context evaluation, tool integration).</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="44,4,0">Hands-on experience designing or operating model evaluation pipelines, AI proxies/gateways, or dynamic routing systems.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="44,5,0">Demonstrated ability to analyze infrastructure unit economics, capacity trade-offs, and operational telemetry.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="44,6,0">Exceptional communication and cross-functional leadership skills, with a track record of driving technical alignment across engineering squads and leadership.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="44,7,0">Commitment to engineering best practices, security guardrails, data privacy, and maintainable software design.</p> </li> </ul> <p data-path-to-node="45"><strong data-path-to-node="45" data-index-in-node="0">AI-Assisted Engineering Expectations:</strong></p> <ul data-path-to-node="46"> <li> <p data-path-to-node="46,0,0">Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate prototyping, explore new architectures, and streamline ramp-up across new domains.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="46,1,0">Review AI-generated code and architecture critically, enforcing rigorous automated testing, safety, and long-term maintainability.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="46,2,0">Adhere strictly to data-handling and security protocols to safeguard proprietary and member data.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="46,3,0">Elevate team productivity by sharing effective AI development workflows,<span class=""> spec templates,</span><span class=""> and evaluation guardrails.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p data-path-to-node="47"><strong data-path-to-node="47" data-index-in-node="0">Nice to have:</strong></p> <ul data-path-to-node="48"> <li> <p data-path-to-node="48,0,0">Experience designing or scaling internal developer platforms (IDPs) and developer tooling at enterprise scale.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="48,1,0">Practical exposure to FinOps frameworks for tracking and optimizing cloud or AI compute spend.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="48,2,0">Direct experience developing autonomous agentic workflows or deep integrations into engineering development lifecycle tools.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="48,3,0">Background in financial technology, banking platforms, or regulated engineering environments.</p> </li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><div class="gmail_default"><strong>Compensation and Benefits</strong></div> <div class="gmail_default">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. </div> <div class="gmail_default"> </div> <div class="gmail_default">To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our <strong><a href="https://sofietyinfo.sofi.com/sofi-benefits" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sofietyinfo.sofi.com/sofi-benefits&source=gmail&ust=1667318410571000&usg=AOvVaw0ZqbRtznVe1JsWWUOWQUnN">Benefits at SoFi</a> </strong>page!</div> <h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></h5> <h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.</span></h5> <h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.</span></h5> <h5 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2022/02/ls740_1.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights</span></a></h5> <h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SoFi is committed to an inclusive culture. As part of this commitment, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">SoFi </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 </span><a href="mailto:accommodations@sofi.com" target="_blank">accommodations@sofi.com.</a></h5> <h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico at this time.</span></h5> <div class="gmail_default"><strong>Internal Employees</strong></div> <div class="gmail_default">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.</div></div>