Senior Staff Software Engineer

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Who we are:

Welcoming collaborative and having the opportunity to make an impact - is how our employees describe working here. Galileo is a financial technology company that provides innovative and revolutionary software products and services that power some of the worlds largest Fintechs. We are the only payments innovator that applies tech and engineering capabilities to empower Fintechs and financial institutions to unleash their full creativity to achieve their most inspired goals. Galileo leads its industry with superior fraud detection security decision-making analytics and regulatory compliance functionality combined with customized responsive and flexible programs to accelerate the success of all payments companies and solve tomorrows payments challenges today. We hire energetic and creative employees while providing them the opportunity to excel in their careers and make a difference for our clients. Learn more about us and why we work here at role:

• As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Galileo you will lead broad impactful projects across multiple teams as one of the senior-most technical contributors. Your influence will span across teams projects and locations shaping both our technical direction as well as how our teams build and operate software systems.
• You will be hands-on and in the details as an exemplary practitioner for both the software we develop as well as the tools and techniques we use to test release and operate it. You will help teams evolve code-bases to ship improvements safely and frequently. As part of this you will steward a broader engineering community and mentor others.
• You will proactively identify the problems to solve and advocate for the right organization priorities. This role is inherently cross-functional and you will work closely with engineering product risk compliance data legal and executive teams to define and execute on technical strategy. Youll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical product and operational shaping your personal growth and career along the way.

What youll do:

• Own driving Galileos software architecture and systems forward setting long term direction and executing on it across multiple teams and quarters.
• Build as an exemplary practitioner: you will get to be hands-on developing software and set a high quality standard for teams to follow.
• Define the right boundaries APIs and integrations between our teams and with our clients and partners to set us up for technical and business success.
• Solve complex engineering problems endemic to high-availability low-latency scalable distributed systems.
• Execute large-scale projects leading design planning and execution across multiple teams to drive technical directions and product outcomes.
• Proactively identify broader problems and opportunities. Anticipate and design the next generation of our systems and products.
• Raise the quality of our engineering teams: you will identify opportunities and advocate for improvements to the way we write software our approach testing and quality and shape the habits and processes of highly effective teams.
• Mentor and coach to individuals and teams across the company. Steward engineering communities fostering design collaboration and mindshare.
• Articulate how technical architecture and team structure interact provide input to the right organization structure to deliver on our engineer goals.
• Strategic advisor to leadership representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders and participating in strategic planning.
• Continuously drives improvement new practices and operational excellence initiatives across the department (e.g. multiple groups).
• Raises the quality of department and products. Be able to stand up processes mechanisms or tools to improve engineering excellence operations and quality of our technology.
• Through a combination of working through others and their contribution improves the departments systems by championing improvements in code design and operational reviews. Leads initiatives that improve department software quality and operations. Be a stakeholder in engineering norms and standards for code quality software quality and operational excellence for your department.

What youll need:

• 10 years programming experience mastery of software development independent of language (Ideally in Python)
• Advanced expertise in designing building and operating large-scale fault-tolerant distributed systems applications databases and workflows.
• Demonstrated experience with continuous delivery principles and techniques: youve built systems with layered test automation that is always safe for automated releases to production enabling a great low-cycle time developer experience.
• A high standard for what great looks like and experience continuously improving legacy systems to reach it.
• Strong judgment experience recognizing and driving out critical decisions in a balanced and pragmatic way.
• Experience building systems with public cloud infrastructure preferably AWS.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to lead and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
  
  

Galileo Financial Technologies 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.

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