Director Of Engineering
San Francisco, California, Us
Member of senior engineering leadership team with responsibility for all aspects of product development. Grew Utah engineering location from 5 engineers to ~160 engineers across all types of engineering roles. Grew other sites and managed team members in Helena, Seattle, San Francisco and Delaware offices. Launched SoFiβs first B2B platform called "SoFi at Work". Product platform consisted of employer benefits such as student loan rate discounts, loan verifications, financial wellness content, tools and calculators, planning and debt management tools, and emergency savings accounts. On-boarded two vendor partners to rapidly expand product development team to roughly 25% of the org. Acquired both off-shore and near-shore talent across a variety of development, QA, data, and dev-ops roles. Led a culture shift from heavily departmentalized teams to fully autonomous teams with cradle to grave support of all applications. Drove process changes towards lean agile development practices based on amplified learning and small iterative releases at a fast pace of 40-50 software releases per week into production. Java/Kotlin based architecture, microservices, spring boot, Kubernetes, Kafka on the backend with Reactjs on the frontend and hosted in AWS. Experienced with integrating 3rd party SAAS providers such as Plaid, Experian, Docusign, and Braintree.