Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Enablement

SoFi SoFi · Fintech · Seattle, WA · Engineering

Senior Software Engineer role focused on Engineering Enablement (Builder Tools) at SoFi, a fintech company. The role involves designing, developing, and scaling developer productivity tooling, including CI/CD platforms and AI-assisted developer productivity flows. Requires experience in cloud environments, containers, build systems, and AI tools for developers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide leadership for the technical design, delivery and operational excellence of code, build, CI/CD platforms, and related developer tooling.
  2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation in developer tooling, and advancements including AI assisted developer productivity flows.
  3. Become a subject matter expert for one or more developer tooling domains, including operational excellence aspects.
  4. Collaborate with engineers in the team, provide mentorship, and share domain expertise to enhance the overall technical capabilities of the team.
  5. Contribute to creating a culture of continuous learning, data-driven decisions and improvements. Proactively identify and manage risks.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 5+ years software development experience.
  • Experience developing in a cloud environment (AWS), using containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Envoy).
  • Expertise in one more of the following domains: build systems for JVM ecosystem (e.g., Gradle, Bazel), AI assisted developer tools (e.g., CoPilot, Amazon Q), and CI/CD systems (e.g., ArgoCD, Gitlab Runners, BuildKite).
  • Proven coding skills (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python) delivering large scale systems with infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform).
  • Strong problem solving and programming fundamentals (algorithms, data structures).
  • Strong understanding of software design principles, and distributed systems architecture.
  • Ability to independently plan, manage and own deliverables, from scoping through launch. Experience working with Agile development processes.
  • Experience with AI Tools (Cursor, Claude Code, MCPs etc.)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate well with a team, and proven skills to operate effectively in cross-functional teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience with monitoring, tracing and logging systems (e.g. Datadog, Elastic, Splunk).
  • Experience with security, compliance, and risk management in cloud and fintech environments.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI assisted developer productivity flows
  • AI Tools: Experience with AI Tools (Cursor, Claude Code, MCPs etc.)
  • Experience with AI assisted developer tools (e.g., CoPilot, Amazon Q)