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

Lead development team to enhance and build end-to-end scalable financial infrastructure. You’ll work and collaborate with a very talented team that is customer and quality focused. 

What you’ll do:

• Full development life-cycle design from project requirement to deployment
• Work on automation and improvement of data exchanges and data pipelines between internal and external teams
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, deliverables, and goals
• Write, test, and deploy efficient, scalable code to production that impacts millions of individuals
• Lead cross-functional teams to build a scalable transaction data pipeline
• Conduct process improvement projects to increase performance in vital program metrics
• Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leadership
• Define best practices and uphold coding standards
• Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity
• Develops and applies advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories, and concepts
• Work within the Engineering team to develop features that specifically benefit our users

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 6+ years 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 with building scalable Cloud infrastructure for processing data
• Demonstrated expertise with data store and cloud technologies, ideally within a microservice architecture
• Demonstrated ability to design resilient software components within a distributed system
• Broad knowledge about the design and operation of systems outside of specialty 
• Must be able to deliver high-quality code, communicate with groups in and outside the development team

Nice to have:

• Proficient with Python and C code 
• Experience with AWS Services

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.