Senior Software Systems 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 world's 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 tomorrow's 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 https://www.galileo-ft.com/working-at-galileo.

The role: 

• As the Staff Systems Engineer, you will join a growing Platform Engineering team focused on expanding our Core Banking as a Service substrate to handle highly available, multi-tenant, multi-region services across diverse products. 
• The role needs experienced engineers with excellent cross-functional and communication skills and backgrounds in operations, software development, systems performance, and resilience engineering. We must always focus on the quality of our customers' experiences. 

What you’ll do: 

• Build the future of Galileo systems by delivering a cloud-first infrastructure and application platform that is secure by default. This reduces the cognitive load on the product teams and thereby accelerates the time to market of new products and features. 
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product to enable security, resilience, and compliance outcomes in the hybrid cloud AWS platform through excellent technical design.
• Implement infrastructure as code core tenants to enable wide-scale collaboration across the organization.
• • Partner with engineering and customers to design and Implement new solutions while improving the resilience of the modern surroundings.
  • Communicate tradeoffs in implementation options to team members and leadership.
  • Work across teams to ensure that the platform design meets the needs of internal customers and that the patterns can scale for 10 times our largest external customer.
  • Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
  • Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
  • Communicate and collaborate with product and design

  What you’ll need:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 6+ years of programming experience, ideally on a modern stack.
  • Hands-on experience with Continuous Delivery principles and techniques, including unit testing and build & deploy pipelines.
  • Ability to lead and influence a team's technical direction
  • Experience in the development of backend software development languages such as Python, Go, and Java.
  • Strong experience building, analyzing, and troubleshooting scalable distributed systems.
  • Experience operating in the Cloud, preferably in AWS.
  • Proven working experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting UNIX /Linux-based environments.
  • Solid experience with Kubernetes administration and configuration
  • Experience with observability and monitoring systems (i.e. OpenTelemetry, DataDog, ) 
  • Demonstrated ability to design for fault tolerance and security while optimizing for high throughput, latency-sensitive workloads.
  • Demonstrated experience in configuration management automation and orchestration using automation frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef and/or Terraform

   

  Nice to have:

  • Experience working in highly regulated environments such as FinTech.
  • Strong working knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma methodologies and technical program management experience.
  • Native/Professional Fluency in Spanish to Communicate with LATAM Team Members

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.

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

Galileo is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, Galileo 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.

Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.