Principal Engineer, Cyberbank Core

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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 Principal Software Engineer on the Cyberbank Core team at Galileo you will lead broad impactful projects across multiple teams as one of the senior-most technical contributors shaping our next-generation lean core banking platform. Your influence will span teams projects and geographies driving both technical direction and how our teams design build and operate the services and data pipelines that power scalable performant and secure banking products.

You will be hands-on and in the details as an exemplary practitioner: in the software we develop in the infrastructure we operate and in the tools and techniques we use to test release and maintain it at scale. You will help teams evolve codebases to ship improvements safely and frequently in a regulated cloud-native environment. As part of this you will steward a broader engineering community and mentor engineers across the organization.

You will proactively identify the right problems to solve and advocate for organizational priorities. This role is inherently cross-functional you will work closely with engineering product compliance data and executive stakeholders to define and execute on technical strategy for Cyberbank Core. Youll face and solve a wide range of challenges: architectural operational and product-related across multiple products and geographies.

What Youll Do:

• Own driving Cyberbank Cores software architecture and systems forward setting long-term direction and executing on it across multiple teams and quarters with a particular focus on the core banking services data pipelines and API platform.
• Build as an exemplary practitioner: get hands-on developing software and set a high quality standard for teams to follow.
• Define the right boundaries APIs and integrations between teams and with clients and partners to ensure technical and business success across multiple geographies.
• Solve complex engineering problems endemic to high-availability low-latency scalable distributed systems in a regulated banking environment.
• Execute large-scale projects leading design planning and execution across multiple teams to drive technical direction and product outcomes.
• Drive the design and implementation of scalable secure and highly available SaaS services and data engineering pipelines that support next-generation core banking capabilities.
• Proactively identify broader problems and opportunities. Anticipate and design the next generation of our systems and products.
• Raise the quality of our engineering teams: identify opportunities and advocate for improvements to how we write software our approach to testing and quality and the habits and processes of highly effective teams.
• Mentor and coach individuals and teams across the company. Steward engineering communities fostering design collaboration and mindshare.
• Articulate how technical architecture and team structure interact and provide input on the right organizational structure to deliver on our engineering goals.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders and participating in strategic planning.
• Continuously drive improvement new practices and operational excellence initiatives across the department.
• Champion improvements in code design and operational reviews. Lead initiatives that improve department software quality and operations. Be a stakeholder in engineering norms and standards for code quality software quality and operational excellence.

What Youll Need:

• 10 years of programming experience; mastery of software development independent of language.
• 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.
• Deep expertise in designing and managing cloud-based solutions with a strong focus on resiliency experience with AWS (or other public cloud infrastructure) required.
• A high standard for what great looks like and experience continuously improving legacy systems to reach it.
• Strong judgment and experience recognizing and driving out critical decisions in a balanced and pragmatic way.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across remote distributed teams.
• Experience working in a regulated industry.
• Experience working on banking backends particularly cores ledgers or payment systems is a plus.
• Bi-lingual Spanish/English required.

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