SoFi Invest is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a key architect and technical leader, driving forward systems design, shaping engineering culture, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across the organization to deliver scalable, reliable, and performant trading systems for their retail investment platform.
Requirements
- 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.).
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
Other
- 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- 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.
- 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.
