Sr Staff SWE, Machine Learnings/ Data

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The role

The Fraud and Risk Signals engineering  team is responsible for building ML platform that can scale and power experiences that brings together all of SoFi's products and services in a cohesive way and helps our members get their money right every day. As a senior engineer on the Member team, you will be core to our vision of leveraging machine learning to power personalized experiences across SoFi.

In this role, you will help build a democratized machine learning platform that will enable every team at SoFi to train, deploy, and monitor models with confidence. You will build automation pipelines and instrument observability, while focusing on business metrics. The ideal candidate has experience in managing a production machine learning lifecycle. If you like iterating, learning and innovating on problems with company wide impact, we would love to have you in our team

What you’ll do:

• Architect and technically lead development of highly scalable machine learning systems that the entire company will use.

• Build scalable tools and services for handling machine learning workflows

• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and product managers to deploy and maintain machine learning models

• Identify and evaluate new patterns and technologies to improve performance, maintainability and elegance of our machine learning systems

• Design software architecture and data flows for scalable machine learning development work

• Communicate with peer engineers and product managers to build requirements and track progress

• Attribute to a team culture that values effective collaboration, technical perfection, and innovation

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

• 6+ years experience building end-to-end data systems as Platform Engineer, ML Engineer or Data Engineer.

• Experience setting up an AI platform on Cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure)

• Experience building systems with scalable data processing (Spark or SQL)

• Fluent in Python, Java or C++

• Familiarity with microservices

• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools

• Strong communication and technical leadership skills

• Desire to mentor and help others improve their skills

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!

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