Principal Web Platform Engineer, SoFi

• Deep expertise in front-end engineering (10+ years), with a strong focus on scalable web platforms
• Proven experience designing and building reusable SDKs, UI libraries, and platform APIs
• Expertise in modern front-end frameworks (React preferred), build tooling, and testing frameworks
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, web performance optimization, and accessibility standards
• Excellent cross-functional communication and leadership skills
• Experience with mobile-web and responsive web frameworks

Desirable

• We’re looking for a highly experienced Principal Web Platform Front-End Engineer to lead and establish a new team at SoFi called “Web Core.” This team will be central to scaling our 80+ consumer-facing and internal web applications
• In this role, you’ll drive the design, architecture, and development of platform-level tools, libraries, documentation, and front-end patterns that power our web ecosystem
• As a hands-on technical leader, you’ll shape the future of SoFi’s web platform infrastructure—enabling consistency, performance, and scalability across products
• You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, infrastructure, and executive leadership to define and execute a strategic vision that supports company-wide goals
• The team will be an AI-first team, adopting LLM/agentic-powered technologies to accelerate and scale our web platform
• An engineer should ideally be excited about learning and integrating with these new tools
• Lead the architecture and development of reusable front-end platform tools, SDKs, and shared libraries
• Design and maintain systems that improve developer experience across CI/CD, testing, and deployment pipelines
• Define standards and best practices for performance, accessibility, and design system adoption
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive adoption and alignment of core platform capabilities
• Tackle complex technical and organizational challenges that span teams and products
• Mentor engineers across the org, championing engineering excellence and knowledge-sharing

• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Generous vacation and holidays
• Paid parental leave for eligible employees
• 401(k) and education on retirement planning
• Tuition reimbursement on approved programs, up to $5,250 per year
• Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
• Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
• Flexible time off
• Fertility and family planning options
• Free financial classes

Total funding: $2.7bn

SoFi started by offering ways for students to secure better financial terms on their loans, and now offers a huge range of personal finance products, including bank accounts, loans, mortgages, investment advice, and investment opportunities. Many customers find they have to go to multiple financial service providers to meet all their finance needs, but SoFi overcomes this issue by putting it all in one place.