Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform
2 weeks ago
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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
SoFi is driven by data In this role, you will contribute to the long-term success of SoFi's data vision by developing distributed systems and scalable data platforms. The Data Platform Group supports data use cases across all of SoFi's diverse business units by providing a highly scalable, democratized data platform that empowers teams to ingest, model, and consume data confidently. Join the Data Platform Group as it refines its vision and establishes industry-leading standards for data lifecycle management, introducing best-in-class architectural components and processes to extract value from disparate data sources. The success of this team is vital to the company's success, and your contributions will have a highly visible and lasting impact.
As a Principal Engineer, you'll contribute to the team's technical direction by designing innovative solutions to complex business challenges. You'll collaborate with engineering teams to maximize value for platform consumers, coordinate with squads to align with the Data Platform team's strategy, and provide guidance on testing and deployment strategies. Leveraging your expertise, you'll explore GenAI to enhance data analysis and decision-making. You'll mentor team members and represent the team during recruitment and hiring. The ideal candidate has experience in distributed systems and scalable data platforms.
What you'll do:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand complex business requirements and translate them into scalable, high-impact technical solutions, directly influencing SoFi's data-driven decision-making processes.
- Lead architectural design sessions for the Data Platform and its integrations (APIs, services), ensuring solutions are not only technically sound but also aligned with broader business goals and significantly contribute to SoFi's overall data strategy.
- Drive the development of advanced features within the Experimentation platform, ensuring modular, efficient, and scalable code structures optimized for the aforementioned stack.
- Spearhead rigorous code review processes, underscoring best practices, efficiency, and optimal use of underlying software components unique capabilities and services.
- Foster and facilitate internal technical sessions, exploring nuances of AWS data services like DMS, MSK (Kafka) , and S3, and sharing best practices for integration with the broader data stack.
- Provide technical leadership in evaluating and adopting emerging technologies within the modern data stack, ensuring SoFi remains at the forefront of data engineering innovation.
- Drive Operational excellence across the squads and act as a liaison between Data and other organizations. Implement and track operational metrics to measure progress and identify opportunities for further optimization.
- Engineer sophisticated data pipelines using dbt, Airflow, and Snowflake, with special emphasis on performance optimization and data integrity using Great Expectations.
- Leverage Python and SQL scripting proficiencies for intricate data operations, custom ETL/ELT processes, and sophisticated data transformations across the platform.
- Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to explore and implement GenAI solutions for data analysis, feature engineering, and predictive modeling. Contribute to the development of responsible GenAI practices within the organization, ensuring ethical and unbiased use of AI technologies.
- Mentor technical team members in best practices for Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, and AWS services, promoting a culture of technical distinction and innovation.
What you'll need:
- Educational Background: A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field is required; an advanced degree is preferred.
- Experience: A minimum of 10 years in a pivotal Software/Data Engineering role, with extensive experience in modern data stacks, particularly Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Docker/k8s, and AWS data services.
- Technical Skills:
- Strong understanding of data ingestion, orchestration, transformation, and reverse ETL best practices and design principles.
- Proven skills in distributed systems architecture and building scalable solutions.
- Mastery in Python, Java, and SQL for complex operations within Snowflake and AWS services like DMS, MSK (Kafka), and S3.
- Solid experience with Terraform or Cloudformation as IaC solutions.
- Soft Skills:
- Strong leadership and communication skills.
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews, and managing pull requests.
- Demonstrated problem-solving capabilities, especially within the context of the modern data stack and experimentation realm.
- Exceptional technical communication skills, adept at liaising with both technical peers and diverse stakeholders within a data-driven organization.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team of developers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support.
Nice to have:
- Data exploration and analysis experience using SQL/Python/R/Tableau.
- Experience with prompt engineering and fine-tuning LLMs.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- Experience with data governance and security.
- Familiarity with machine learning concepts.
- Experience with finance / fintech or enthusiastic to learn and grow in this space.
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 comprehensiveand competitivebenefits, visit ourBenefits at SoFipage
SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.
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.
New York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights
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.
Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
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