Senior Engineering Manager, Protect
Summary
Senior Engineering Manager leading SoFi Tech Solutions' Protect team, building a greenfield next-generation insurance platform. Day to day: hiring and mentoring multiple squads, setting architecture and delivery direction for scalable cloud-native microservices on Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot), Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Docker and Terraform.
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Who we are:
Welcoming, collaborative and having the opportunity to make an impact - is how our employees describe working here. SoFi Tech Solutions (formerly Galileo Financial Technologies) is a financial technology company that provides innovative and revolutionary software products and services that power some of the world's largest Fintechs. We are the only payments innovator that applies tech and engineering capabilities to empower Fintechs and financial institutions to unleash their full creativity to achieve their most inspired goals. SoFi Tech Solutions leads its industry with superior fraud detection, security, decision-making analytics and regulatory compliance functionality combined with customized, responsive and flexible programs to accelerate the success of all payments companies and solve tomorrow's payments challenges today. We hire energetic and creative employees while providing them the opportunity to excel in their careers and make a difference for our clients. Learn more about us and why we work here at .
The role:
As the Senior Software Engineering Manager for the Protect team, you will lead the engineering organization building our next-generation Insurance platform. You will establish technical and operational direction for a rapidly expanding, mission-critical business line at SoFi where core platform architecture is greenfield and business impact is direct and tangible. This is an opportunity to shape long-term platform capabilities, architecture, and engineering culture across the organization.
You thrive on cultivating engineering teams that value diverse perspectives and foster environments where every team member can contribute and grow. You champion continuous learning, lead iterative experimentation, take end-to-end ownership, and inspire ongoing technical curiosity. At SoFi, we hold deep conviction in tight partnership across Product, Design, Risk, and Engineering; you will engage across the entire lifecycle—from product ideation and distributed systems design to high-availability deployment and continuous system evolution.
What you’ll do:
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Lead team building, organizational design, talent acquisition, performance management, and career development across multiple engineering squads.
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Guide architectural strategy and lead the delivery of highly scalable, fault-tolerant platform services in a cloud-native production environment.
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Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations to translate member needs and strategic business goals into resilient technical solutions.
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Identify, evaluate, and implement modern architectural patterns and frameworks to enhance system reliability, maintainability, and operational elegance.
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Champion operational excellence, establishing robust automated testing, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and incident mitigation practices across all team services.
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Coach and mentor mid-level to senior software engineers and engineering leads, fostering a culture of technical excellence and clear career progression.
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Facilitate constructive technical design reviews, navigate architectural trade-offs, and establish shared engineering standards across partner domains.
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Communicate roadmaps, architectural trade-offs, and system health effectively with cross-functional partners and senior leadership.
What you’ll need:
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Education & Minimum Experience Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field + 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in engineering management leading teams of software engineers (OR Master’s Degree in a related technical field + 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in engineering management).
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Proven track record of zero-to-one product delivery, taking new platform capabilities from concept through production rollout with active users.
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Exceptional distributed systems design expertise—able to design resilient microservices, define API contracts, and navigate consistency, idempotency, and failure modes in high-volume workflows.
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Demonstrated technical depth—capable of evaluating architecture proposals, leading rigorous design reviews, and maintaining a high standard for software maintainability and system health.
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Proven cross-functional leadership—demonstrated ability to align Product, Design, Compliance, Risk, and Operations partners autonomously to deliver business outcomes.
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Familiarity with JVM-based stacks (Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot) and modern cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines).
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Excellent communication and presentation skills—able to articulate complex system trade-offs clearly to executive stakeholders and partner teams.
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Experience cultivating psychological safety, mentorship, and high-performance standards within engineering teams.
Nice to have:
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Direct domain experience in FinTech, InsurTech, consumer insurance workflows, or highly regulated financial ecosystems.
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Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms (e.g., Apache Kafka, Temporal.io, AWS Step Functions).
SoFi Tech Solutions 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.
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