Staff Software Engineer, AI

The role

We are building a new AI engineering team with the mission of bringing the value of AI to SoFi Members.  This team will play a key role in supporting our member’s financial journeys by developing new solutions to embed personalized financial insights into our products.  The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems, with a passion for building products on the cutting edge.  At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying and continual improvement and evolution.  We also pride ourselves on a philosophy of continuous learning, and you should likewise be committed to furthering your own career growth as well as to providing mentorship for your fellow team members.

Key responsibilities

• Drive technical architecture, design decisions and cross-functional discussions for the product
• Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
• Lead the design, development and testing of systems
• Lead code and system design reviews
• Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions
• Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
• Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers
• Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity
• Develop and apply advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories, and concepts
• Broad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialty
• Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years programming experience on a modern stack
• Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / AWS/ PostgreSQL, and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture.  We are building a Python stack for AI.
• Experience working with new technologies in the AI stack, such as building Agents, creating MCP servers, fine tuning models, prompt engineering, and performance evaluation
• Experience working with applications that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs), such as integrating LLMs, designing prompts, or exploring their practical applications.
• You should have a strong understanding of relational databases and ORMs
• You should have worked on a SOA or microservice-based application
• Strong sense of ownership; driving a project from inception to completion
• Pragmatic approach towards handling tech debt versus shipping new features
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests