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 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:

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 Galileo.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for experienced software engineers excited to help drive our product and infrastructure development at rapid scale for our Credit Card Authorization platform. Galileo removes the complexities of payments, so companies can focus on providing their customers with excellent card issuing and peerless digital banking experiences. 

What you’ll do: 

On the Pathfinder Authorization and Settlement  team, you will be in the middle of it all – architecting our system, partnering with EMs and PMs on product direction, prompting engineering and operational excellence, mentoring other engineers, and solving some of the most difficult issues in the system. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring and supporting mission critical systems. 

You’ll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way, as well as helping mold and grow the members of the team.

• Lead a team with technical designs, organized work, and coding and testing.
• Write, test, and deploy maintainable, reliable, performant, scalable code to production
• Deliver highly available services in a production environment and be responsible for the monitoring and ability to quickly respond to incidents.
• Participate in a 24/7 pager-rotation for services that the team develops
• Generate ideas for new initiatives, architectural and code refactoring, and introduction of new technologies.
• Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team ensuring high trust and collaboration.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams on joint projects.

What you’ll need:

• Ability to lead a team's technical direction, and mentor engineers in technical leadership.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack. 
• Object oriented programming experience including scaling, performance optimization, and code architecture using optimal patterns (e.g. Python, Java, C#, we use Python)
• Demonstrated expertise with data store and microservices architecture in a cloud.
• Demonstrated ability to design resilient software components within a distributed system.
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Delivery principles and techniques, including full suite automation tests and build & deploy pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience with monitoring and alerting tools

Nice to have:

• 3+ years experience with Python
• Experience working with Fintech 

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.