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Engineering Manager, Workday

SoFi · San Francisco, CA · posted 21 days ago

In short: Engineering Manager, Workday at SoFi in San Francisco, CA, posted 21 days ago.

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The job

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Employer	SoFi
Location	San Francisco, California
Field	Technology › Software engineering
Level	not stated
Source category	Information Technology
Posted	2026-10-19 (21 days ago)
Work arrangement	On-site at the location listed
Pay	Not published in the source listing

Job description

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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.

The role:

As the Engineering Manager of Workday Platform at SoFi, you will lead a dedicated team of integration engineers responsible for designing, building, and supporting the core data conduits connecting our Workday ecosystem across broader financial, HR, payroll, and cloud platforms. You will partner closely with People Operations, Finance, Enterprise Engineering, Security, and external vendors to establish technical roadmaps, uphold architectural standards, and deliver reliable data integrations at scale.

We are looking for an experienced technical leader who pairs deep Workday technical expertise with people-first leadership. In this role, you will foster an inclusive environment where engineers thrive, remove operational roadblocks, champion data integrity, and guide your team through complex technical problem solving with a founder’s mindset.

What you’ll do:

Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team responsible for Workday HCM, Financial Management, Payroll, and the broader Workday technical ecosystem, balancing hands-on technical leadership with people management
Define and execute the Workday technical roadmap, architecture standards, engineering principles, and platform modernization strategy aligned with business priorities and enterprise architecture.
Translate department priorities into clear sprint goals, integration specifications, and project roadmaps, ensuring timely delivery while managing operational dependencies.
Design, develop, and maintain secure, resilient, and reusable integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, and enterprise integration platforms such as MuleSoft.
Establish standards for technical design, peer reviews, automated testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, incident management, and production support to improve reliability and maintainability.
Own production support and incident management for the integration landscape; guide root-cause investigations, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive preventative enhancements.
Manage third-party vendor relationships and service integrations (e.g., benefits administrators, financial platforms), ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) and strict data privacy compliance.
Lead semi-annual Workday release testing and regression cycles, proactively identifying new capabilities (such as Workday Extend or Prism Analytics) that bring business value.

What you’ll need:

Education & Minimum Experience Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree + 4+ Years of Experience OR Master’s Degree + 3+ Years of Experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Extensive hands-on experience architecting, developing, and supporting Workday HCM, Financial Management, and Payroll, including complex business processes, configuration, security, reporting, and production support.
Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing Workday engineers, establishing engineering standards, conducting design and code reviews, and driving technical excellence across the platform.
Strong understanding of Workday architecture, platform extensibility, technical roadmaps, release management, and emerging capabilities to continuously modernize the enterprise application ecosystem.
Expertise in Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, Workday Web Services, REST/SOAP APIs, and integration design patterns, with experience building secure, scalable, and resilient integrations.
Experience with Workday Extend and platform extensibility capabilities to build custom applications, user experiences, and workflows that address complex business requirements while minimizing unnecessary customization.
Familiarity with Workday’s evolving AI capabilities, including Workday Illuminate, AI-powered business process automation. Ability to identify practical opportunities to improve employee productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and streamline Finance and HR operations.
Understanding of AI security, role-based access, data privacy, human oversight, auditability, and governance requirements for deploying AI capabilities in enterprise HR and financial systems.
Strong experience with Workday Report Writer, calculated fields, dashboards, analytics, and data extraction, with an understanding of Workday data models and integration with enterprise data platforms.
Deep understanding of Workday security architecture, domain and business process security policies, segregation of duties, audit controls, and SOX compliance requirements.
Experience with middleware and integration platforms such as MuleSoft, along with event-driven architecture, API management, data transformation, and secure integration patterns across enterprise applications.
Strong partnership skills with Finance, HR, Payroll, Security, Data, and enterprise architecture teams to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills, with the ability to convey technical complexity clearly to diverse audiences.

Nice to have:

6+ years of hands-on Workday integration development experience, with 2+ years of direct people management or formal team leadership experience.
Practical experience managing integrations with payroll providers (e.g., ADP) and financial ledgers.
Familiarity with Workday Extend, Workday Prism Analytics, or orchestration middleware.
Active Workday Integration Certification (e.g., Workday Studio, Core Connectors, or Integrations).
Understanding of fintech regulatory environments, SOX controls, and data security frameworks (OAuth, SAML, encryption).

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! 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. We are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico at this time. Internal Employees If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.

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The city

The job is in San Francisco, CA. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How San Francisco compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, San Francisco is #4 by population, #139 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #20 for remote work (#1 = most), #25 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, San Francisco County, is #3 of 58 counties for average pay ($174,103).

The place in numbers

San Francisco has 830,235 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 2.1% of the population of California. It covers 47 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 17,784 people per square mile. The median age is 40.0, 6% older than the state median (40.0 against 37.9).

Housing

The median gross rent is $2,476 a month (rent plus utilities), 22% above the state median ($2,476 against $2,036). Over a year that is 21.1% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $1,394,500, which is 9.9 times the median household income ($140,970); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 38.2% of households own their home, 32% below the state average (38.2% against 55.9%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan area has 2,373,920 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $74,260 a year, 46% above the national median ($74,260 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (226,320 jobs, median $62,120); management (223,100 jobs, median $176,340); business and financial operations (207,030 jobs, median $112,960). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.9 times) and life, physical, and social science (1.8 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($176,340) and computer and mathematical ($167,770). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of San Francisco County was 4.0%. 69.6% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in San Francisco County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 28.6% drive alone, 18.7% use public transit, 9.3% walk, 31.0% work from home. 21.6% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 11% above the state average (21.6% against 19.4%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

60.3% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 63% above the state share (60.3% against 37.1%). 34.0% of residents were born outside the United States, 26% above the state share (34.0% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 11.2%, 7% below the state rate (11.2% against 12.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Sep, averaging 59°F (14.9°C), and the coolest is Apr at 53°F (11.6°C). About 515 mm (20 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (112 mm) and Jul the driest (2 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Daly City (31 miles, rent 3% higher); Pacifica (31 miles, rent 25% higher); San Bruno (34 miles, rent 12% higher); Millbrae (36 miles, rent 32% higher). Rent differences are against San Francisco; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

CITY Official statistics Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year (via Census Reporter) · Data: ACS 2020–2024

Places within 50 miles (straight line) of San Francisco, CA that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.

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Place ⇅	Distance from the job city ⇅	Median rent ⇅	Median home value ⇅	Median household income ⇅	Commute 45+ min ⇅	Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅	Open jobs there ⇅
San Francisco, CA	0 mi	$2,476	$1,394,500	$140,970	21.6%	n/a	Jobs
Daly City, CA	31 mi	$2,551	$1,115,000	$123,547	19.6%	n/a	Jobs
Pacifica, CA	31 mi	$3,098	$1,249,800	$160,523	15.5%	n/a	—
San Bruno, CA	34 mi	$2,773	$1,207,500	$141,272	12.2%	n/a	—
Millbrae, CA	36 mi	$3,272	$1,934,900	$163,476	21.8%	n/a	Jobs
Brisbane, CA	36 mi	$2,574	$1,232,200	$156,169	29.8%	n/a	—
South San Francisco, CA	36 mi	$2,802	$1,188,800	$136,578	15.2%	n/a	Jobs
Half Moon Bay, CA	37 mi	$2,433	$1,549,500	$157,884	26.7%	n/a	—
Burlingame, CA	38 mi	$2,785	$2,000,001	$174,000	23.1%	n/a	Jobs
Richmond, CA	40 mi	$1,960	$668,200	$95,391	28.8%	n/a	—
San Mateo, CA	41 mi	$3,077	$1,618,700	$153,504	15.8%	n/a	Jobs
Berkeley, CA	41 mi	$2,133	$1,413,900	$108,092	20.8%	n/a	Jobs
Alameda, CA	42 mi	$2,474	$1,235,700	$137,697	27.3%	n/a	Jobs
Belmont, CA	43 mi	$2,875	$2,000,001	$205,297	18.6%	n/a	Jobs
Oakland, CA	44 mi	$1,979	$929,900	$101,600	21.9%	n/a	Jobs
Foster City, CA	44 mi	$3,501	$1,838,200	$199,143	20.6%	n/a	Jobs
San Carlos, CA	45 mi	$2,854	$2,000,001	$237,470	14.9%	n/a	Jobs
Redwood City, CA	47 mi	$2,968	$1,801,700	$157,814	10.2%	n/a	Jobs
San Leandro, CA	48 mi	$2,186	$844,200	$101,420	23.7%	n/a	—
Atherton, CA	49 mi	$3,501	$2,000,001	$250,001	7.0%	n/a	—

Career paths

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Cybersecurity (713) Data, analytics and AI (3366) Cloud, IT and infrastructure (1040) Product management (836)

Distances

CITY Calculation (straight line) Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer (coordinates) · Data: 2024

How far San Francisco, CA is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.

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From ⇅	Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅	Population of that city ⇅
San Francisco, CA	0 mi	830,235
San Jose, CA	73 mi	990,138
Los Angeles, CA	364 mi	3,857,263
San Diego, CA	475 mi	1,389,526
Phoenix, AZ	678 mi	1,642,323
Seattle, WA	684 mi	754,195
Denver, CO	986 mi	718,877
Oklahoma City, OK	1,420 mi	697,125
Fort Worth, TX	1,484 mi	963,194
Dallas, TX	1,515 mi	1,307,930
San Antonio, TX	1,516 mi	1,479,835
Austin, TX	1,530 mi	979,539
Houston, TX	1,673 mi	2,328,253
Chicago, IL	1,885 mi	2,711,226
Indianapolis, IN	1,979 mi	885,860
Columbus, OH	2,142 mi	914,802
Charlotte, NC	2,332 mi	903,844
Jacksonville, FL	2,403 mi	977,670
Philadelphia, PA	2,550 mi	1,579,706
New York, NY	2,602 mi	8,483,844

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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City ⇅	Straight-line distance ⇅	Open jobs ⇅
Alameda, CA	42 mi	38
Belmont, CA	43 mi	2
Redwood City, CA	47 mi	45
Palo Alto, CA	54 mi	298
Sunnyvale, CA	60 mi	83
Fremont, CA	62 mi	6
Pleasanton, CA	63 mi	6
Milpitas, CA	66 mi	2
Campbell, CA	67 mi	7
San Jose, CA	73 mi	698
Capitola, CA	79 mi	1
Sacramento, CA	103 mi	53

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Median rent in San Francisco is $2,476 a month and median household income $140,970 (ACS 2020–2024).

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