Senior Principal Software Engineer- Crypto ID- 10101
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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.
We are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to join our team. SoFi is building out a new team to develop crypto products and services for our 11M+ members. Recent developments made a path for SoFi to begin to re-enter the space and expand on our product offerings with intuitive, secure and fully featured products across crypto Investing, Transfers, Payments, Custody and beyond.
On our team, you will be in the middle of it all – implementing functionality, architecting our system, squashing bugs, maintaining the health of our code, and continually growing as an engineer. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker. At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying and continual improvement and evolution.
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
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 Rights
SoFi 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 accommodations.
Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
Internal Employees
If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.
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.
We are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to join our team. SoFi is building out a new team to develop crypto products and services for our 11M+ members. Recent developments made a path for SoFi to begin to re-enter the space and expand on our product offerings with intuitive, secure and fully featured products across crypto Investing, Transfers, Payments, Custody and beyond.
On our team, you will be in the middle of it all – implementing functionality, architecting our system, squashing bugs, maintaining the health of our code, and continually growing as an engineer. The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker. At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying and continual improvement and evolution.
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
- Build high-quality, scalable systems with a focus on performance, security, and reliability in crypto products.
- Shape the technical architecture across SoFi’s crypto stack — wallets, custody, trading, and beyond.
- Drive new ideas and technical strategies that push our crypto offerings forward.
- Raise the bar on engineering through code quality, mentorship, and setting strong technical standards.
- Apply deep knowledge of crypto protocols, smart contracts, and blockchain infrastructure.
- Collaborate across teams to deliver reusable crypto services and integrate with SoFi’s broader platform.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of technical growth and curiosity.
- Lead discussions, reviews, and decisions across teams and with senior technical leadership.
- Make smart, pragmatic decisions that balance speed and quality.
- Stay curious — constantly learning new tools, protocols, and patterns in the evolving crypto space.
- Ask hard questions, give and take feedback well, and thrive in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.
- 10+ years programming experience, with significant experience in modern day languages and familiarity with AI tools
- Expert understanding and hands-on experience building and operating large-scale fault-tolerant distributed systems, workflows, databases and mobile/web applications
- Deep understanding of code release, deployment orchestration / rollout mechanisms, logging, instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting in a microservices environment
- Experience with public cloud infrastructure
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of blockchain fundamentals and distributed ledger technologies
- Familiarity with digital assets across major chains (Bitcoin, Etherium, etc.) Virtual Assistant, $40/hr, Remote, Weekend, Entry Level Remote Live Chat, $35/hr, Part-Time, Evening/Night Job Phone Support, $50/hr, Weekend, Remote, No Experience Remote Phone Job, $42/hr, Night Shift, College Student Friendly Virtual Assistant, $40/hr, No Experience, Remote, Night Job Weekend Data Entry, $40/hr, Remote, No Experience Remote Moderator, $40/hr, Part-Time, Weekend, No Degree Virtual Assistant, $42/hr, Remote, Weekend, No Degree Phone Support, Remote, $35/hr, No Experience, Night Shift Remote Data Entry, $45/hr, No Degree, Night Shift Entry Level Phone Job, $42/hr, Remote, No Degree Required Remote Moderator, $40/hr, Part-Time, Weekend, No Degree Remote Moderator, $40/hr, No Degree, Weekend Job, Part-Time Remote Live Chat, $40/hr, Part-Time, No Degree Required Remote Customer Support, $35/hr, Night Shift, No Degree Virtual Assistant, Remote, $45/hr, Evening, No Experience Remote Customer Support, $40/hr, Weekend, No Experience Virtual Assistant, $50/hr, Evening, Remote, College Student Weekend Data Entry, $40/hr, Remote, No Experience Phone Support, $50/hr, Weekend, Remote, No Experience Virtual Assistant, $40/hr, Evening, Remote, No Degree Remote Phone Support, $40/hr, Night Job, College Student Virtual Assistant, $40/hr, Evening, Remote, College Student Remote Moderator, $40/hr, College Student Friendly, Part-Time Virtual Assistant, $42/hr, Remote, Weekend, Entry Level Virtual Assistant, $35/hr, Remote, Part-Time, Evening Job Live Chat Support, $42/hr, Weekend, Remote, No Degree Virtual Assistant, $35/hr, Part-Time, Remote, Weekend Job Remote Customer Support, $45/hr, No Experience, Part-Time Remote Moderator, $40/hr, Weekend, No Degree, Part-Time Data Entry, Remote, $42/hr, Evening Job, No Degree Phone Support, Remote, $50/hr, No Experience, Night Shift Remote Customer Support, $42/hr, Night Job, No Experience Live Chat Support, $35/hr, Remote, No Experience Required Virtual Assistant, No Experience, $42/hr, Remote, Part-Time Customer Support, $40/hr, Remote, Part-Time, No Degree Virtual Assistant, Remote, $45/hr, Evening, No Experience Customer Support, $40/hr, Remote, Evening, No Experience Remote Data Entry, $42/hr, Evening/Night Job, No Experience Part-Time Customer Support, $40/hr, Remote, College Student Virtual Assistant, $50/hr, Remote, Part-Time, Evening Job Remote Phone Support, $45/hr, Night Job, College Student Remote Data Entry, $40/hr, Evening/Night Job, No Experience Remote Live Chat, $50/hr, College Student, No Experience Data Entry, $50/hr, Remote, Evening Job, College Student Data Entry, No Experience, $50/hr, Remote, College Student Customer Support, $40/hr, Remote, Part-Time, No Degree Live Chat Support, $45/hr, Weekend, Remote, College Student Remote Moderator, $40/hr, No Degree, Weekend Job, Part-Time Virtual Assistant, Remote, $50/hr, Part-Time, Night Shift Data Entry, $40/hr, No Experience, Remote, Weekend Job Phone Job, $50/hr, Remote, No Degree, Part-Time, Weekend Virtual Assistant, $35/hr, Remote, Part-Time, Evening Job Remote Customer Support, $40/hr, Night Job, No Experience Virtual Assistant, Remote, $40/hr, Evening, No Experience Remote Customer Support, $42/hr, Night Job, No Experience Phone Support, Remote, $42/hr, Evening/Night Shift Remote Customer Support, $42/hr, Night Job, No Experience Customer Support, $40/hr, Remote, Evening, No Experience Customer Support, $35/hr, Remote, Evening/Night Job, No Degree Phone Support, Remote, $35/hr, No Experience, Part-Time Phone Support, Remote, $35/hr, No Experience, Part-Time Remote Live Chat, $42/hr, Weekend, No Degree, Part-Time Customer Support, $35/hr, Night Job, Remote, No Experience Remote Moderator, $40/hr, College Student Friendly, Part-Time Data Entry, Remote, $40/hr, Night Shift, No Degree Virtual Assistant, Remote, $42/hr, Weekend, No Experience Live Chat Support, $40/hr, Weekend, Remote, No Degree Phone Job, $45/hr, Remote, Night Shift, No Degree Phone Support, Remote, $40/hr, Evening/Night Shift Data Entry, Remote, $40/hr, Night Shift, No Degree Remote Phone Job, $42/hr, Night Shift, College Student Friendly Live Chat Support, $45/hr, Weekend, Remote, College Student Customer Support, $40/hr, Weekend Job, Remote, No Degree Remote Data Entry, $45/hr, No Degree, Night Shift Virtual Assistant, $40/hr, Remote, No Degree, Night Job Phone Support, $50/hr, Weekend, Remote, No Experience Remote Data Entry, $45/hr, No Degree, Weekend, Night Job Virtual Assistant, $35/hr, Weekend, No Degree, Remote Live Chat Support, $40/hr, Weekend, Remote, College Student Weekend Data Entry, $40/hr, Remote, No Experience Phone Job, $50/hr, Remote, No Degree, Part-Time, Weekend Data Entry, No Experience, $35/hr, Remote, College Student Virtual Assistant, $35/hr, Weekend, No Degree, Remote Live Chat Support, $42/hr, Weekend, Remote, No Degree Entry Level Phone Job, $42/hr, Remote, No Degree Required Part-Time Data Entry, $40/hr, Remote, College Student Friendly Customer Support, No Degree, $40/hr, Remote, Weekend Job Virtual Assistant, Remote, $50/hr, Part-Time, Night Shift Live Chat Support, $45/hr, Weekend, Remote, College Student Entry Level Phone Job, $40/hr, Remote, No Degree Required Remote Phone Job, $35/hr, College Student, Night Shift Virtual Assistant, No Experience, $40/hr, Remote, Weekend Virtual Assistant, $45/hr, No Experience, Remote, Night Job Virtual Assistant, $35/hr, Evening, Remote, College Student Remote Phone Support, $45/hr, Evening, No Experience Required Remote Moderator, $42/hr, College Student, Weekend Job Virtual Assistant, $40/hr, Remote, No Experience, Night Job Remote Customer Support, $40/hr, Weekend, No Experience Part-Time Customer Support, $40/hr, Remote, College Student Remote Moderator, $42/hr, Weekend, No Experience Required Remote Customer Support, $50/hr, Night Shift, No Degree Customer Support, $50/hr, Night Job, Remote, No Experience Weekend Data Entry, $40/hr, Remote, No Experience Evening Virtual Assistant, Remote, $40/hr, No Experience
- Hands-on experience with smart contracts
- Familiarity with custody, settlement, and clearing of crypto transactions
- Experience with security and best practices for wallet management
- Exposure to crypto trading platforms, market data, and DeFi protocols
- Experience integrating with or building services using crypto infrastructure providers (e.g., Fireblocks, Zero Hash, Anchorage)
- Awareness of Web3 trends, including NFTs, DAOs, and Layer 2 solutions
- Prior work in or collaboration with crypto-native companies or fintechs
- Enthusiasm for the evolving digital asset ecosystem and its potential impact on financial services
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 Rights
SoFi 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 accommodations.
Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
Internal Employees
If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.