Software Engineering Manager, Small Business

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our Small Business team to help build the next generation financial products for small businesses.  In this role, you will set technical direction for a rapidly growing, business-critical area within SoFi, partnering closely with product and business leaders to solve complex, high-impact challenges. 

You will be engaged across the full product lifecycle—from ideation and design through development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and long-term support of mission-critical systems. As a people leader, you will mentor and develop engineers, support their career growth, and help cultivate the next generation of technical leaders. This is a unique opportunity to shape both the evolution of the team and the platform capabilities that will power the business for years to come.

• Own team building and management, including hiring and team performance.
• Drive Architecture and technically lead development of highly scalable features.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and product managers to deploy and maintain product features.
• Identify and evaluate new patterns and technologies to improve performance, maintainability and elegance of our systems
• Participate in shaping the technical architecture 
• Help translate user stories into technical solutions
• Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
• Mentor engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
• Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers

• Bachelor's Degree, in a technical field
• 3+ years management experience or experience leading a team
• 8+ years software engineering experience, ideally on a modern stack
• Maintain code quality, performance, and sound architectural principles
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
• Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment (and git specifically), refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Demonstrated experience in managing and leading software development teams, with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects.
• Excellent leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate team members to achieve high performance.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Bonus: Experience in FinTech or small business financing