Staff Software Engineer, Builder Tools

The Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our Test Platform team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to directly impact the design and architecture of our Developer Platform and tooling that enables SoFi engineers to create and deliver high-quality solutions. You will collaborate and partner with a curious team of engineers to design and deliver solutions that raise the testing and reliability standards for our backend and web applications. This new team will be focused on building a green field project to enable autonomous testing for our AI driven SDLC, leveraging cutting edge technologies to deliver a highly resilient and thorough platform. If you are a seasoned Staff Software Engineer with a passion for building products that just work and enabling developers to build reliable services, and a strong background in distributed systems, we invite you to apply for this exciting and new opportunity.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide technical leadership for initiatives in Testing and Reliability, with a focus on integrating AI-driven automation and autonomous testing practices.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to understand requirements and design platform capabilities that are efficient, robust, and developer-friendly.
• Architect and implement solutions that accelerate integration, load, performance, and chaos testing—including the use of AI for automated test generation, selection, and failure analysis.
• Deliver software that enables seamless testing and operation of backend systems in cloud-native, containerized, and CI/CD environments, supporting shift-left and continuous delivery.
• Research, prototype, and productionize AI/ML tools to enhance developer productivity, test coverage, and test maturity.
• Lead code reviews, refactoring, and provide constructive feedback to team members, promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Champion best practices for code health, test automation, environment stability, and software maintainability, contributing to the evolution of autonomous testing at SoFi.

What You’ll Need:

• Experience - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience developing in a cloud environment (AWS), using containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native technologies and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Envoy).
• Design - Strong understanding of software design principles, and distributed systems architecture.
• Coding Skills - Proven programming skills (Java, Kotlin, Python, Go) in developing enterprise scale systems.
• Expertise - Expertise in automated testing strategies, testing in production, test tenancy, API mocking, traffic capture, routing and playback technologies.
• Problem Solving - Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically about the Testing and Reliability domains.
• Project Ownership - Ability to manage and deliver projects from scoping through launch. 
• Communication - Effective communication and collaboration, and proven skills to operate effectively in a cross-functional team.

Nice to haves: 

• Experience with load testing (e.g., Locust, Artillery), E2E testing (e.g., Cypress), failure injection and chaos testing (Gremlin, AWS FIS) technologies.
• Experience with monitoring and logging (e.g. Datadog, Elastic, Splunk).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Argo, GitLab CI/CD).
• Experience with security and compliance requirements in cloud environments.