Staff Software Engineer, Invest

The Role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the SoFi Invest team. SoFi Invest is SoFi’s retail investment platform that includes our market-leading robo-advisor, and online brokerage (stock, ETF, and mutual funds trading) products.

In this role, you will serve as a key architect and technical leader—driving forward our systems design, shaping our engineering culture, mentoring a team of engineers, and collaborating across the broader SoFi organization to deliver scalable, reliable, and performant trading systems. If you’re passionate about solving complex technical problems and building resilient systems that serve millions of users, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

What You’ll Do:

• Technical Leadership & Strategy
  
  
  
  • 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.

  
  

• Platform Ownership




• 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.



• Mentorship & Influence




• 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.


• Foster a culture of learning, inclusion, and continuous improvement.



• Cross-Team Collaboration




• Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and Compliance partners to translate business requirements into reliable, auditable systems.


• Collaborate with peer engineers across SoFi to align platform capabilities and infrastructure patterns.


• Lead technical working groups and influence roadmaps that span multiple teams.

What You’ll Need:

• Experience & Education




• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).


• 6+ years of professional software development experience.


• Technical Expertise




• 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.).



• Leadership & Collaboration




• 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.

Nice to Haves:

• 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

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Work on real-time systems that directly power SoFi’s investment products and touch millions of members.


• Collaborate with smart, kind engineers who take pride in high-quality systems and care about the impact of their work.


• Shape the next generation of SoFi’s investing platform—and help our members get their money right.