Principal Web Platform Engineer
New Yesterday
The role
:
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.
What you’ll do:
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.
What you’ll need:
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.
Nice to have:
Experience with monorepos and frontend infrastructure tooling.
Familiarity with micro-frontend patterns and federated module systems.
Strong instincts for developer experience and system design at scale.
Experience building GraphQL infrastructure and models.
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.
To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!
Pay range: $192,000.00 - $330,000.00 Payment frequency: Annual This role is also eligible for a bonus, long term incentives and competitive benefits. More information about our employee benefits can be found in the link above.
- Location:
- Seattle