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SoFi · 12 hours ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$173K/yr - $297K/yr
date8+ years exp

SoFi is a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative technology to help members reach their financial goals. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead the technical strategy and implementation of AI-powered software testing, drive innovation in testing infrastructure, and mentor team members to enhance their technical capabilities.

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Responsibilities

Technical leadership - Provide thought leadership for the technical strategy, design, implementation, delivery and operations for AI powered agentic testing (autonomous test generation, execution, failure remediation), and foundational test infrastructure (environment, data generation, multi tenancy)
Innovate - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation in testing enablement infrastructure, experience and tooling
Exemplary Practitioner - Be a subject matter expert in the testing domain, including outcome KPIs and metrics, and operational excellence
Mentor - Collaborate with engineers in the team, provide mentorship, and domain expertise to enhance the overall technical capabilities of the team
Continuous Improvement - Contribute to creating a culture of continuous learning, data-driven decisions and improvements. Proactively identify and manage risks
Collaborate – Build strong working relationships with coworkers and cross-organizational teams
Influence - Influence and scale the adoption of platforms, tools and best practices across the engineering organization

Qualification

Cloud environment (AWS)AI tools developmentTesting practices (micro-services)Software design principlesProgramming JavaProgramming KotlinProgramming PythonCI/CD pipelinesContainer orchestration DockerContainer orchestration KubernetesAgile development processesProject ownershipProblem solvingInterpersonal skills

Required

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
8+ years software development experience
Experience developing in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS), using containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies, service meshes (e.g., Istio, Envoy), CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
Deep knowledge of testing practices for micro-services (e.g., multi tenancy, ephemeral test environment, test user and data generation techniques). Deep awareness of testing tools (e.g., Locust, Artillery), frameworks (e.g., Kotest, Mockito) and techniques (e.g., fuzz, property)
2+ years of experience using or developing AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Prompts, Cursor), AI infrastructure (e.g., MCP, RAGs, Vector dbs), agent frameworks (e.g. Agent SDK, Langchain, Langfuse)
Strong understanding of software design principles, and distributed systems architecture
Strong problem solving and programming fundamentals (algorithms, data structures)
Proven coding skills (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python) delivering large scale systems with infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform)
Ability to own, manage and deliver projects from scoping through launch. Experience working with Agile development processes
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to collaborate well with technical and non-technical members, and proven skills to operate effectively in a cross-functional team

Preferred

Experience with security, compliance, and risk management in cloud environments
Experience with monitoring and logging (e.g. Datadog, Elastic, Coralogix)
Experience with container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and networking

Company

SoFi

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SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services.
dateFounded in 2011
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
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https://www.sofi.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2023 (131)
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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$12.25B
Key Investors
Fortress Investment GroupPGIMQatar Investment Authority
2025-12-04Post Ipo Equity· $1.5B
2025-07-29Post Ipo Equity· $1.5B
2025-04-17Post Ipo Debt· $3.2B

Leadership Team

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Anthony Noto
CEO
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Jeremy Rishel
Chief Technology Officer
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