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The Role You will be the technical leader for Digital Identity at SoFi: the platform group that powers identity, authorization, and entitlements for every product and every member across the company. Digital Identity runs Tier-0 infrastructure: the highest criticality rating at SoFi. Every product line, banking, lending, investing, credit cards, crypto depends on these platforms to know who a member is, what they're entitled to, and what they're authorized to do
When these platforms are down, SoFi is down .You'll define the technical strategy for this group. You'll architect solutions for complex, ambiguous problems: multi-person access patterns, cross-organizational platform convergence, and data integrity at financial-services scale
You'll build the engineering processes and culture that let a lean team operate Tier-0 infrastructure with confidence. And you'll push the boundaries of how we build, leveraging AI to accelerate development, prototype faster, and experiment with approaches that would have been impractical two years ago
What You'll Own Platform Technical Strategy: Digital Identity operates multiple Tier-0 platforms spanning identity resolution, entitlement management, and fine-grained authorization. You own the technical strategy across all of them: setting the architectural direction, executing and leading designs, and ensuring the platforms evolve as a coherent system rather than independent services
Complex Authorization Architecture: SoFi is expanding into scenarios where multiple people interact with shared financial resources: across business, family, and custodial contexts. You'll design the unified platform architecture that handles these patterns at scale: consistent access models, compliance-grade audit trails, and enforcement of regulatory requirements. This is one platform problem with many product surfaces
Cross-Organization Platform Convergence: SoFi operates and integrates with multiple technology organizations with overlapping identity and authorization infrastructure. You'll lead the architectural vision for convergence: a shared platform primitives that multiple organizations consume while preserving the flexibility each product line needs. This requires navigating competing priorities, different technical stacks, and organizational boundaries
Operational Excellence & Data Integrity: Tier-0 financial platforms demand more than uptime. You'll architect the verification and reconciliation systems that prove these platforms are correct: automated integrity checks, drift detection, and self-healing mechanisms. You'll establish the operational processes, incident response standards, and reliability practices that let the team ship with confidence and sleep at night
Engineering Culture & Team Uplift: You'll raise the bar for how this team builds software. That means establishing rigorous design review processes, defining engineering standards that compound over time, mentoring senior ICs into technical leaders, and creating the feedback loops that turn incidents into prevention. You're not just the best engineer on the team: you're the reason the whole team gets better
Strategic Investment Identification: You won't just execute on the roadmap handed to you. You'll identify the next set of high-leverage technical investments: where the platforms should go, what capabilities are missing, which emerging patterns (in authorization, in AI, in infrastructure) should be adopted before the business asks for them
What We're Looking For Required Qualifications Distributed systems architecture at scale
You've designed and shipped platforms that other engineering teams depend on: not just consumed services, but built them. You understand the failure modes of event-driven systems, eventual consistency, and cross-service data integrity. You've made hard tradeoffs between consistency, availability, and latency in production
Technical leadership with accountability built in
You don't just design systems: you design systems that prove they're correct. Reconciliation mechanisms, audit trails, integrity guarantees, automated verification. You've built infrastructure where "trust but verify" is architecture, not process
You actively use AI to build, prototype, and experiment. You've integrated AI-assisted development into your workflow and can articulate where it accelerates engineering and where it introduces risk. You push teams to adopt AI-native approaches to development not as a novelty, but as a competitive advantage in velocity and experimentation
Group-level influence and execution
You've driven technical strategy across multiple teams. You've navigated ambiguity where business goals were clear but the right technical problems to solve were not. You've represented your organization's technical direction to peer groups and senior / executive leadership
You've established processes, standards, and practices that made entire teams more effective and not just shipped features yourself. You care about design review rigor, operational readiness, on-call excellence, and mentoring senior engineers into technical leaders
Ownership of outcomes, not just systems
You measure your work by what it enabled such as products shipped, risks eliminated, teams unblocked and not by the complexity of what you built
Preferred Qualifications Experience building identity & authorization platforms especially in multi-tenant or consumer-facing contexts. Familiarity with relationship-based access control models, fine-grained authorization systems, or identity federation infrastructure
Experience in financial services or regulated industries where compliance, audit trails, and data integrity are architectural requirements, not afterthoughts
Track record of platform convergence: merging or unifying infrastructure across acquisitions, subsidiaries, or organizations with different technical stacks
What This Isn't This is not a role for someone who wants to write code in a corner. You'll spend significant time on architecture, cross-team alignment, design reviews, and mentorship. You will write code and drive credibility with your depth but the highest-leverage output is the technical direction you set, the engineering culture you build, and the engineers you develop
Digital Identity is horizontal infrastructure. Every product at SoFi depends on your platforms. A design decision you make affects millions of members
Multi-person financial authorization, cross-org platform convergence, data integrity at Tier-0 scale. These aren't optimizations: they're greenfield architecture for a company-wide platform
Tier-0 means executives know when you ship and when you don't. Impact is not abstract here
Deep distributed systems work and Group-level technical leadership. You’ll build both muscles, every week. You'll architect systems and build the team's engineering culture in equal measure
We're not waiting for the industry to figure out how AI changes platform engineering. You'll help define that for Digital Identity, using AI to move faster, experiment more, and build systems that would have been impractical with traditional approaches alone
About SoFi SoFi is a member-first personal finance platform serving millions of members. We offer banking, lending, investing, insurance, and more – all in one app. Our engineering culture values ownership, accountability, and building platforms that scale across product lines rather than bespoke solutions per vertical
Digital Identity is one of the most critical engineering groups at SoFi. We're a lean, senior team solving company-wide problems at the intersection of security, scale, and member experience
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
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