Staff Software Engineer, Core API

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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 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 .

The role:

You will steward the building blocks of modern fintech. Our APIs empower clients to build unique financial experiences meaning your teams work directly powers the innovation of some of the worlds largest fintechs.

What youll do:

• Build the Golden Path: Design and deliver reusable frameworks and shared infrastructure that help product squads ship secure observable and compliant services by default.
• Create Platform Abstractions: Identify repeated implementation patterns and turn them into modular platform components that reduce duplication and simplify service development.
• Improve Traceability and Observability: Drive adoption of common telemetry and request-correlation patterns so teams can troubleshoot and operate services more effectively.
• Advance Contract-First Development: Help make technical contracts the source of truth for service development with tooling that keeps implementation documentation and schemas aligned.
• Raise the DX (Developer Experience) Bar: Build platform tools that teams adopt because they are faster clearer and easier to use than bespoke alternatives.
• Navigate Trade-offs Well: Make sound technical decisions that balance standardization delivery speed and the practical needs of individual teams.
• Partner Across Teams: Work closely with engineers managers and adjacent platform teams to align on patterns priorities and rollout plans.
• Mentor Through Practice: Coach engineers through design reviews code review docs and shared implementation work; help maintain core platform libraries and support an innersource contribution model.

What youll need:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Distributed Systems Experience: 8 years of experience designing and scaling resilient software systems ideally with strong Python experience.
• Platform Mindset: Experience building shared libraries services proxies or frameworks used by internal engineering teams.
• Modern SDLC Depth: Hands-on experience with CI/CD automated testing schema validation and production delivery pipelines.
• Cross-Team Influence: A track record of driving technical direction and gaining buy-in from peer teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Cloud & Kubernetes Experience: Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Pragmatic Engineering Judgment: Ability to identify when a problem should be standardized abstracted or left local.

Nice to have:

• Framework Expertise: Familiarity with Python Flask and/or FastAPI frameworks.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform for delivering standardized infrastructure templates.
• API Governance: Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger standards and the governance of large-scale API catalogs.
• Observability & Identity Experience: Experience with distributed tracing metric taxonomies and service-to-service authentication (S2SA) patterns.
• FinTech Experience: Domain knowledge in payment systems or highly regulated financial technology environments.

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.

The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job without regard to protected characteristics.

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