Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Accelerated SDLC

SoFi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Israelvcforum is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their Builder Tools engineering team in San Francisco. This role focuses on technical leadership and aims to enhance developer productivity through AI-powered solutions.

The ideal candidate will bring over 8 years of software development experience, including expertise in AI tools and cloud technologies like AWS. This position offers a chance to influence and lead significant projects within a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience including cloud technologies.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and distributed systems.
• Proven coding skills in scalable systems with automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership on technical architecture and design.
• Lead innovation in developer tooling and AI-assisted productivity.
• Mentor engineers to enhance team capabilities.

Skills

Software development experience

AI tools experience

Cloud environment skills

Strong problem solving

Coding skills (Java, Kotlin, Python)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Builder Tools engineering organization with a mission to enable SoFi engineers to elegantly solve problems. In this role, you will have the opportunity to directly impact, influence and lead the direction and architecture of our next‑gen AI‑powered SDLC, and elevate developer experience through AI‑enabled workflows, tooling and practices. You will get the chance to lead, define, and take on complex and interesting problems as part of a fast‑paced, highly collaborative organization. The ideal candidate will be a mentor, technical leader and a team player who is hands‑on and comfortable driving solutions from initial architecture to implementation and adoption with a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Technical leadership - Provide thought leadership for technical architecture and design, implementation, delivery and operations of AI‑enabled tools, agents, and workflows across the SDLC including plan, code, test, build, deploy, observe and remediate.
• Innovate - Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to drive innovation in developer tooling, and advancements including AI assisted developer productivity flows.
• Exemplary Practitioner - Be a subject matter expert for one or more developer tooling domains, including operational excellence.
• Mentor - Collaborate with engineers in the team, provide mentorship, and domain expertise to enhance the overall technical capabilities of the team.
• Continuous Improvement - Contribute to creating a culture of continuous learning, data‑driven decisions and improvements. Proactively identify and manage risks.
• Collaborate – Build strong working relationships with coworkers and cross‑organizational teams.
• Influence - Influence and scale the adoption of AI‑powered SDLC tooling, workflows and best practices across the engineering organization.

What You’ll Need

• Experience - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years software development experience.
• Experience developing in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS), using containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud‑native technologies, service meshes (e.g., Istio, Envoy), CI/CD and automated testing.
• Expertise - 2+ years of experience in AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Agent SDK, Prompts, Skills, Cursor), infrastructure (e.g., MCP, AWS Bedrock, RAGs, vector dbs) and agent frameworks (e.g., Langchain, Langgraph, CrewAI).
• Design - Strong understanding of software design principles, and distributed systems architecture.
• Problem solving - Strong problem solving and programming fundamentals (algorithms, data structures).
• Coding Skills - Proven coding skills (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python) delivering large scale systems with infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform).
• Project Ownership - Ability to own, manage and deliver projects from scoping through launch. Experience working with Agile development processes.
• Strong Interpersonal skills - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to collaborate well with technical and non‑technical members, and proven skills to operate effectively in a cross‑functional team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with security, compliance, and risk management in cloud environments.
• Experience with monitoring and logging (e.g., Datadog, Elastic, Splunk).
• Experience with container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and networking.

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.

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