Staff Data Engineer
Role summary
SoFi is seeking an experienced Staff Data Engineer to lead technical solutions for the Data Products team within its SIPS division. This role involves driving the vision and strategy for critical data models used across the company for analytics, reporting, and machine learning. The engineer will design, develop, and optimize robust data pipelines and infrastructure, ensuring high availability and quality data. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams, enforcing data governance, and leveraging AI tools in data workflows. The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of data modeling, database design, cloud platforms (Snowflake, AWS), and programming languages like Python and SQL, with at least 8 years of experience.
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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.
Team:
SoFi is seeking an experienced and motivated Staff Data Engineer to drive high standard technical solutions for the Data Products team within the SIPS (Spend, Invest, Protect, Save) division - supporting all SoFi Financial Services. The mission of the SIPS Data Engineering team is to support Data Engineering and reporting for SoFi’s Financial Services products. As a technical leader you will lead the vision and strategy to build foundational and critical data models which are highly leveraged across SoFi for analytical, reporting, and machine learning use-cases. Our goal is to empower consumers to make data driven decisions and effectively measure their results by providing high quality, high availability data, and democratized data.
Role:
A talented, enthusiastic, detail-oriented, and experienced Data Engineer who knows how to take on big data challenges in an agile way. This includes big data design and analysis, data modeling, and development, deployment, and operations of big data pipelines. Leads development of some of the most critical data pipelines and data sets, and expands self-service data knowledge and capabilities. This role requires you to live at the cross section of data and engineering. You should have a deep understanding of data, analytical techniques, and how to connect insights to the business, and you have practical experience in insisting on the highest standards on operations in ETL and big data pipelines.
What you’ll do:
What you’ll need:
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 an inclusive culture. 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@sofi.com.
Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
Sample SoFi interview questions
- 1
Develop a real-time system for managing traffic and rerouting.
system designmedium - 2
Reverse Nodes in k-Group Reverse nodes in k-group in a linked list. Input: head = [1,2,3,4,5], k = 3 Output: [3,2,1,4,5] Explanation: The first 3 elements are reversed, while the remaining 2 are left untouched since they don't form a complete group.
codingmedium - 3
Clone an Undirected Graph Clone an undirected graph. Input: adjList = [[]] Output: [[]] Explanation: Creates a new, deeply cloned graph containing only one single node with zero connected neighbors.
codingmedium - 4
Longest Substring with Two Distinct Characters Find the longest substring with at most two distinct characters. Input: s = "ccaabbb" Output: 5 Explanation: The substring "aabbb" contains exactly two distinct characters and has a maximum length of 5.
codingmedium - 5
Diameter of a Binary Tree Find the diameter of a binary tree. Input: root = [1,2] Output: 1 Explanation: The longest path is simply the single edge connecting the root node to its only child.
codingmedium
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