Software Engineering Manager, Small Business
at SoFi
WA - Seattle
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Who we are:
Shape a brighter financial future with us.
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
The role
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our Small Business team to help build the next generation financial products for small businesses. In this role, you will set technical direction for a rapidly growing, business-critical area within SoFi, partnering closely with product and business leaders to solve complex, high-impact challenges.
You will be engaged across the full product lifecycle—from ideation and design through development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and long-term support of mission-critical systems. As a people leader, you will mentor and develop engineers, support their career growth, and help cultivate the next generation of technical leaders. This is a unique opportunity to shape both the evolution of the team and the platform capabilities that will power the business for years to come.
What you’ll do:
- Own team building and management, including hiring and team performance.
- Drive Architecture and technically lead development of highly scalable features.
- Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and product managers to deploy and maintain product features.
- Identify and evaluate new patterns and technologies to improve performance, maintainability and elegance of our systems
- Participate in shaping the technical architecture
- Help translate user stories into technical solutions
- Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
- Mentor 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
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s Degree, in a technical field
- 3+ years management experience or experience leading a team
- 8+ years software engineering experience, ideally on a modern stack
- Maintain code quality, performance, and sound architectural principles
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment (and git specifically), refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Demonstrated experience in managing and leading software development teams, with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects.
- Excellent leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate team members to achieve high performance.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Bonus: Experience in FinTech or small business financing