Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Banking Core

Posted 5 Days Ago
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Senior level
Fintech • Mobile • Software • Financial Services
SoFi’s mission is to help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
The Role
The Senior Manager will lead the Banking Core team through the entire product lifecycle, collaborating with cross-functional teams to transform the legacy banking platform and innovate banking services. This role emphasizes team growth, accountability, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within a fast-paced environment.
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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 

We are seeking a Senior Manager to join the Banking Core team. You’ll work in a highly collaborative environment, engaging closely with cross-functional Product, Design, and Engineering teams. You’ll also be involved in the entire product lifecycle—from ideation through deployment, with continuous improvement at every stage.

In this role, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our banking products and services. We are focused on evolving our banking core, refining business logic related to payments, and entitlements, and providing an exceptional end-to-end user experience. This position involves building and maturing member-facing banking services to support new and existing products. Specifically, you will be leading the banking core transformation for SoFi pioneering the migration of a legacy banking platform to a next-gen core.  You will have the opportunity to scale people, processes, and technology as part of this migration and deliver on SoFi's mission to be a leader in the fintech space and banking domain.

At SoFi, you’ll become part of a new kind of finance company whose ambition is to help our members achieve financial independence and reach their goals. We aim to be at the center of our members’ financial lives, and to help every member get their money right. We created student loan refinancing, addressing the biggest financial challenge of a new generation through a modern approach to lending and personal finance. Next we expanded our products and services across loans, wealth management, and insurance. SoFi has achieved significant growth, with ambitious plans ahead, but to continue this growth we need great talent. And that starts with you.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead Profile banking core team through the full development life cycle
  • Collaborate with frontend and other backend teams to lead banking core transformation projects
  • Challenge the status quo, embrace and foster innovation, 
  • Disrupt the industry by building the baking platform of the future
  • Grow the team – understand what your team needs, define how to find and assess candidates
  • Define the growth plan for individuals on your team
  • Hold the team accountable for delivery
  • Shape and support the team culture with an emphasis on continual improvement, learning, and fun
  • Generate ideas for new initiatives
  • Take initiative and produce timely results in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment
  • Facilitate the definition of project scope, deliverables, and goals.

Requirements

  • BS Degree or equivalent from a fully accredited college or university preferred.
    • As a bonus, in a technical field
  • 5+ years of Profile banking core application and Profile database experience
  • 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, mission-critical systems
  • 5+ years of experience with the banking domain and systems and exposure to highly regulated environments
  • 4+ years of experience managing teams
  • Experience hiring, training, motivating, monitoring, and coaching team members
  • Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
  • Strong sense of responsibility; driving initiatives from inception to completion
  • Ability to hold others accountable
  • Experience with Agile SDLC methodologies
  • A desire to learn

Nice to haves

  • Experience in banking core migration projects.
  • Experience building systems in the Fintech space
  • Experience with high volume, low latency, scalable systems

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!

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 RightsSoFi 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 [email protected].Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.

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The Company
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Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

For over a decade, SoFi has helped transform the Fintech industry by creating financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better, so they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions. Whether it’s owning a home, saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, or helping our members invest - SoFi is there every step of the way. Want to learn more about how it works? Check it out here: https://www.sofi.com/how-it-works/

Our core values are at the center of how we help our millions of members get their money right. They are our guiding principles for how we think about serving our members, building our company, and most importantly, how we work together. At SoFi, it’s not just what we do - but how we do it.

SoFi is also proud to be the naming rights partner of SoFi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams.

For more information, visit SoFi.com

Why Work With Us

Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation Fintech company using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront.

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