Senior Engineering Manager, Home Loans

at SoFi

Helena, Seattle, United States

Who we are:

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Our team at SoFi is looking for a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to join our Lending Division. You will lead the development efforts and collaborate with a group of talented software engineers. With your leadership your team will directly release consumer facing features and help grow the SoFi Home Loan business to new records. Each team is empowered to make technical conclusions. You will collaborate with business and product leadership and solve a wide range of challenges. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation, coding, testing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting mission-critical systems. You will work with the engineers on your teams to help them grow their careers along the way, as well as helping mold and grow the next leaders on your teams.

About the Team:

Our team empowers individuals and families to achieve their homeownership dreams by offering a comprehensive range of mortgage products, personalized financial guidance, and a seamless digital experience. You will be at the heart of our technology efforts. You will implement new functionality, resolve bugs, maintain the health of our codebase, and continuously grow as an engineer. You will work closely with marketing, pricing, data science, and risk analytics to deliver solutions that position us as market leaders in decision-making and speed.

What you’ll do:

Manage multiple teams of Engineers with the focus on improving overall customer acquisition, automation, and funding volumes.
You have and continue to demonstrate command of the technical and operational requirements of your role.
You successfully develop employees and help them grow within the organization.
You resolve employee-related issues professionally - occasionally escalating these issues to the next level of the organization.
You fully comprehend, effectively communicate, and enforce goals and objectives, feedback, measurable, and improvement plans.
Monitor and understand the key metrics governing your product area, with an eye toward continuously improving them through ongoing product innovation.
Establish product delivery timelines.

What you’ll need:

Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field
6+ years of Software Engineering experience
4+ years management experience
Deep programming experience, ideally on a modern web stack.
Experience managing multiple teams of engineers, and coaching and growing leaders
Solid understanding of relational databases (MySQL or Postgres)
Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
Passion and expertise for tools and technology
Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features, not polishing perfect code or architecture

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!

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The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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SoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com.

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