SoFi

Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience

SoFi
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Seattle, WA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Define architecture for the enterprise AI Gateway, model routing, automated evaluation platform, and harness vending.
  • Create and execute 12–24 month technical roadmaps addressing developer productivity bottlenecks.
  • Design AI economics systems including cost models, metering, telemetry, and adaptive routing policies.
  • Lead initiatives across Autonomous Coding, CI/CD pipelines, Code Factory, and customer engineering teams.
  • Resolve architectural issues involving latency, throughput, state management, dependencies, and distributed systems.
  • Evaluate AI tooling and foundational models and recommend vendor-neutral integration patterns.
  • Lead technical planning, architectural RFC standards, design reviews, resilience standards, testing, deployment practices, and high-severity incident response.
  • Mentor Senior and Staff engineers and promote responsible, secure, maintainable AI-assisted engineering practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years of experience or master’s degree plus 3+ years of experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
  • Proven technical leadership on multi-team software initiatives involving complex distributed architectures.
  • Strong system design experience with large-scale, high-availability distributed systems, platform infrastructure, and cross-domain APIs.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM-based architectures, model APIs, coding agents, developer harnesses, prompt and context evaluation, and tool integration.
  • Experience designing or operating model evaluation pipelines, AI proxies or gateways, or dynamic routing systems.
  • Ability to analyze infrastructure unit economics, capacity trade-offs, and operational telemetry.
  • Exceptional communication and cross-functional leadership skills with a record of driving technical alignment.
  • Commitment to engineering best practices, security guardrails, data privacy, and maintainable software design.
  • Preferred experience with enterprise-scale internal developer platforms, developer tooling, FinOps, autonomous agentic workflows, engineering lifecycle integrations, or financial technology and regulated environments.
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About SoFi

5,001-10,000 employees

SoFi provides consumer banking, lending, and investing products, including student-loan refinancing, personal loans, mortgages, checking and savings, a credit card, and brokerage. It earns interest and fee revenue across SoFi Bank, N.A., and related subsidiaries, serving U.S. consumers via a mobile app. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, SoFi Technologies is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker SOFI.

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