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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Software Engineer, Member Growth - **Company:** SoFi Technologies, Inc. - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $198,400.0 - $341,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Databases, Data Integrity, Distributed Systems, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Spring-boot, Sofi, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Build Process, Automation Anywhere, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** May 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=607ab90203330c89 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Verification (System development task)?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent. * 10+ years software engineering experience, including 8+ years in technical leadership driving cross-team strategy. * Deep expertise in event-driven, high-scale distributed systems - failure modes, consistency tradeoffs, reconciliation, and compliance-grade audit trails. * Proven cross-team technical leadership tied to business goals; exemplary communication and executive-level representation skills. * Hands-on technical leadership who is willing to roll up your sleeves to design, prototype, and ship critical features in production. * Proficient in Java, Kotlin, or Go; hands-on with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and Spring Boot or similar. * Experience with public cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred); strong fundamentals in relational and document databases, microservices, and high-availability design. Nice To Have * Experience building marketing, advertising, or communications platforms - multi-tenant or consumer-facing at scale. * Experience handling data at scale: event processing, storage, and querying for hundreds of millions of events and attributes per day. * Experience building production AI agents or LLM-powered platforms - orchestration, evals, retrieval/grounding (RAG), and guardrails for regulated environments. * Experience in financial services or regulated industries where compliance and data integrity are architectural requirements. * Track record of platform convergence: unifying infrastructure across acquisitions, subsidiaries, or organizations with different technical stacks. ## Description SoFi is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical and architectural evolution of our Member Growth platforms - the systems that power member acquisition and engagement for every product across the company. Key contributions of this role include: * Architect agentic and AI-driven systems; define evaluation strategy and drive quality, safety, and compliance of AI workflows in a regulated environment. * Define and drive long-term architectural direction across Member Growth platforms: campaign automations, communications, marketing data, and web/mobile acquisition. * Lead cross-organizational platform convergence - building shared primitives that multiple product lines consume while preserving each team's flexibility. * Identify and resolve systemic technical problems across teams; drive alignment to deliver on business and strategic goals. * Raise engineering maturity: design review rigor, operational standards, and mentorship loops that develop senior ICs into technical leaders. * Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Data Science, Business, Legal, and Compliance to align technology strategy with short and long-term goals. What You'll Do * Architect the next generation of Campaign Automations platform - AI-driven targeting, personalization, and customer journey orchestration at scale. * Design the unified communications architecture for member engagement at scale with compliance-grade correctness. * Define the evaluation strategy and drive quality, reliability, safety, and observability of AI-driven workflows in a regulated financial environment. * Lead cross-organizational platform convergence - shared architectural primitives across organizations with different stacks and competing priorities. * Establish operational integrity standards: automated verification, reconciliation mechanisms, and self-healing infrastructure that prove these platforms are correct. * Prototype and ship using AI tools; push the team toward AI-native engineering practices. * Build engineering culture: rigorous design reviews, clear standards, incident-to-prevention feedback loops, and mentoring senior engineers into technical leaders. ## Related Videos - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [Kotlin Multiplatform - True power of native code reuse](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/4-kotlin-multiplatform-true-power-of-native-code-reuse) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Why Kotlin is the better Java and how you can start using it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/661-why-kotlin-is-the-better-java-and-how-you-can-start-using-it) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [How to Answer the Interview Question: “Why Do You Want to Be a Software Engineer?”](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/392-how-to-answer-the-interview-question-why-do-you-want-to-be-a-software-engineer) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift)