Principal Web Platform Engineer

SoFi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking financial services company as a Principal Web Platform Front-End Engineer. In this pivotal role, you'll lead a new team focused on scaling web applications and driving innovative solutions. With a commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technologies, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance developer experience and ensure high-quality web performance. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of web infrastructure while making a meaningful impact on users' financial journeys. If you're passionate about technology and ready to take on complex challenges, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in front-end engineering with a focus on scalable platforms.
• Expertise in designing and building reusable SDKs and UI libraries.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and development of front-end platform tools and libraries.
• Define standards for performance, accessibility, and design system adoption.

Skills

Front-End Engineering

Scalable Web Platforms

Reusable SDKs

UI Libraries

Modern Front-End Frameworks (React)

CI/CD Pipelines

Web Performance Optimization

Accessibility Standards

Cross-Functional Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

React

CI/CD Tools

Testing Frameworks

Job description

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Engineering WA - Seattle
UT - Cottonwood Heights
CA - San Francisco
MT - Helena

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.

We’re looking for a highly experienced Principal Web Platform Front-End Engineer to lead and establish a new team at SoFi called “Web Core.” This team will be central to scaling our 80+ consumer-facing and internal web applications. In this role, you’ll drive the design, architecture, and development of platform-level tools, libraries, documentation, and front-end patterns that power our web ecosystem.

As a hands-on technical leader, you’ll shape the future of SoFi’s web platform infrastructure—enabling consistency, performance, and scalability across products. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, infrastructure, and executive leadership to define and execute a strategic vision that supports company-wide goals.

The team will be an AI-first team, adopting LLM/agentic-powered technologies to accelerate and scale our web platform. An engineer should ideally be excited about learning and integrating with these new tools.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the architecture and development of reusable front-end platform tools, SDKs, and shared libraries.
• Design and maintain systems that improve developer experience across CI/CD, testing, and deployment pipelines.
• Define standards and best practices for performance, accessibility, and design system adoption.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive adoption and alignment of core platform capabilities.
• Tackle complex technical and organizational challenges that span teams and products.
• Mentor engineers across the org, championing engineering excellence and knowledge-sharing.

What you’ll need:

• Deep expertise in front-end engineering (10+ years), with a strong focus on scalable web platforms.
• Proven experience designing and building reusable SDKs, UI libraries, and platform APIs.
• Expertise in modern front-end frameworks (React preferred), build tooling, and testing frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, web performance optimization, and accessibility standards.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and leadership skills.
• Experience with mobile-web and responsive web frameworks.

Nice to have:

• Experience with monorepos and frontend infrastructure tooling.
• Familiarity with micro-frontend patterns and federated module systems.
• Strong instincts for developer experience and system design at scale.
• Experience building GraphQL infrastructure and models.

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.

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Pay range: $192,000.00 - $330,000.00

Payment frequency: Annual

This role is also eligible for a bonus, long term incentives and competitive benefits. More information about our employee benefits can be found in the link above.

Pay range: $192,000.00 - $330,000.00 Payment frequency: Annual This role is also eligible for a bonus, long term incentives and competitive benefits. More information about our employee benefits can be found in the link above.

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