The Role

We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join our team. SoFi is building out a new team to develop crypto products and services for our 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

• Write production-grade, scalable backend code using Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, and modern frameworks.
• Debug and resolve complex systems issues in high-scale, real-time services.
• 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.

What you'll need

• 8+ 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
• Expertise with Java / Spring / Kotlin / PostgreSQL / AWS. Expertise with any modern Java frameworks, REST APIs, and relational databases
• 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 and working with stakeholders across disciplines
• Understanding of blockchain fundamentals and distributed ledger technologies
• Familiarity with digital assets across major chains (Bitcoin, Etherium, …)
• Hands-on experience with smart contracts is a plus
• 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

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. SoFi is building out a new team to develop crypto products and services for our 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.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the development and testing of system components/services, code and design reviews
• Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product
• Help translate user stories into technical solutions
• Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment
• Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
• Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree, ideally in a technical field, but we understand great engineers come from all sorts of different backgrounds and also consider relevant work experience
• 5+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
• Our core stack is Kotlin / Spring / Elixir / PostgreSQL, but you don't have to be an expert in any of these. 4+ years programming experience in similar technologies and an understanding of relational databases and ORMs suffices
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
• Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
• Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features, not polishing perfect code or architecture
• Experience working in a collaborative coding environment (and git specifically), refining designs together, writing tests, working through code reviews and managing pull requests

Nice to Haves:

• Understanding of blockchain fundamentals and distributed ledger technologies
• Hands-on experience working with digital assets (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins)
• Familiarity with custody, settlement, and clearing of crypto transactions
• Knowledge of crypto-specific regulatory environments (e.g., SEC, CFTC, MiCA, etc.)
• Exposure to crypto trading platforms, market data, and DeFi protocols
• Experience integrating with or building services using crypto infrastructure providers (e.g., Fireblocks, Bitgo, 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
• Comfort with cryptographic concepts such as wallets, keys, and signatures
• Enthusiasm for the evolving digital asset ecosystem and its potential impact on financial services

About the team

The SRE team was recently formed with the goals of establishing first-class observability tools and primary owners of all things production.

Team members are located in several international locations (“follow the sun” model) to provide 24/7 availability.

We are a team of unique individuals, experienced and independent, who get things done.

This position is fully remote, candidates required to be in US Pacific time.

What You'll Do

As part of your role, you would improve and establish new monitoring, alerting, and observability of services using a wide range of tools. Additionally, you would handle critical alerts and incidents and work directly with R&D to improve and optimize availability.

• Research Fireblocks blockchain workflows, identify optimization opportunities, issues, and improve monitoring.
• Help identify root causes for incidents and prevent them from happening again. Solve and orchestrate outages by working with multiple teams.
• Improve and establish alerting for our infrastructure, services, and business logic
• Work closely with the R&D and Support: offering education and guidance on integration, support, and monitoring across the toolset
• Communicate and escalate issues to senior management in R&D and support, write RCAs, and define next steps.
• Document actions in runbooks and then into automation using Python, Lambda, shell scripts, ArgoCD, and Ansible.
• Focus on the system's observability, availability, reliability, performance/latency, and monitoring
• Conduct periodic on-call duties and emergency response

What You'll Bring

• At least 3+ years of experience as an SRE, Infra Backend in a SaaS environment.
• You are curious, self-motivated, easy to work with, responsible, and production-aware—fast learner and able to take a project from POC to production, while handling decision-making and communication.
• Experience with Coding languages - Python/JavaScript/Bash (Must)
• At least 3+ years of experience with Alerting & Monitoring systems such as DataDog, Coralogix / Splunk / New Relic / Prometheus
• Experience working with Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond
• Cloud systems such as AWS / Google Cloud / Azure
• Configuration management, such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet/ArgoCD
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• SCM - Git/bitbucket/gitlab/Phabricator/gerrit
• High Analytical & Troubleshooting skills - ability to solve complex problems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and a collaborative mindset

Want to stand out from the crowd?

• Previous experience in cryptocurrencies \ blockchains - a big advantage
• In-depth knowledge in: Linux optimization, nginx, ArgoCD, DataDog, MySQL
• Participated in Kubernetes migration projects
• Previous experience as a C++ or Node developer
• BSC in Computer Science or related technical certifications

For employees hired to work remotely from New York, or from our NYC HQ, Fireblocks is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range is specific to New York City and takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are reviewed when making a hiring decision, such as years of experience, skills, and other business needs.

It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and each compensation decision is dependent on each individual case. A reasonable base salary range estimate for this position is $150,000 - $185,000. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which for some roles may include a target bonus, a very competitive equity grant, and very generous benefits. 

While we believe competitive compensation is a critical aspect of your decision to join us, we do hope you also spend time considering why our mission and culture are right for you. We are creating something transformational here, and we hope you are as excited about the future as we are.

About the team

The SRE Incident Response team is responsible for handling critical application\infrastructure alerts, orchestrating the war room process and enabling first class observability and alerting systems. 

Team members are located in several international locations (“follow the sun” model) to provide 24/7 availability.

We are a team of unique individuals, experienced and independent, who get things done.

On-call coverage is 7 days a week, starting at noon, with the shift ending at 6:00pm. 

This position is fully remote, candidates required to be in US Pacific time.

What You'll Do

As part of your role, you would improve and establish new monitoring, alerting, and observability of services using a wide range of tools. Additionally, you would handle critical alerts and incidents and work directly with engineering and DevOps to improve and optimize availability.

• Manage and participate in incident war rooms, escalating and coordinating response for critical workflow alerts.
• Perform deep-dive troubleshooting for application, transaction, and general technical issues.
• Research Fireblocks blockchain workflows, identify optimization opportunities, issues, and improve monitoring.
• Help identify root causes for incidents and prevent them from happening again. Solve and orchestrate outages by working with multiple teams.
• Improve and establish alerting for our infrastructure, services, and business logic
• Work closely with the R&D and Support: offering education and guidance on integration, support, and monitoring across the toolset
• Communicate and escalate issues to senior management in R&D and support, write RCAs, and define next steps.
• Document actions in runbooks and then into automation using Python, Lambda, shell scripts, ArgoCD, and Ansible.
• Focus on the system's observability, availability, reliability, performance/latency, and monitoring

What You'll Bring

• At least 3+ years of experience as an SRE incident response engineer
• You are curious, self-motivated, easy to work with, responsible, and production-aware—fast learner and able to take a project from POC to production, while handling decision-making and communication.
• Experience with Coding languages - Python/JavaScript/Bash (Must)
• At least 3+ years of experience with Alerting & Monitoring systems such as DataDog, Coralogix / Splunk / New Relic / Prometheus
• Experience working with Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond
• Cloud systems such as AWS / Google Cloud / Azure
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• SCM - Git/bitbucket/gitlab
• High Analytical & Troubleshooting skills - ability to solve complex problems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and a collaborative mindset

Want to stand out from the crowd?

• Previous experience in cryptocurrencies \ blockchains - a big advantage
• In-depth knowledge in: Linux optimization, nginx, ArgoCD, DataDog, MySQL
• Previous experience as a C++ or Node developer
• BSC in Computer Science or related technical certifications

For employees hired to work remotely from New York, or from our NYC HQ, Fireblocks is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range is specific to New York City and takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are reviewed when making a hiring decision, such as years of experience, skills, and other business needs.

It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and each compensation decision is dependent on each individual case. A reasonable base salary range estimate for this position is $150,000 - $185,000. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which for some roles may include a target bonus, a very competitive equity grant, and very generous benefits. 

While we believe competitive compensation is a critical aspect of your decision to join us, we do hope you also spend time considering why our mission and culture are right for you. We are creating something transformational here, and we hope you are as excited about the future as we are.