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

In this role, you’ll be building and operating mission-critical web applications supporting multiple business verticals such as Customer Support, Fraud and Dispute handling and back-office operations.  Expertise in PHP, Python, React, Next.js, SQL and data security fundamentals are essential to succeed in this role. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring and supporting systems. You’ll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way. You will also support our efforts to modernize legacy applications critical processes into new technology stacks, including data and tech-stack migration from on-prem to cloud. You’ll interact with UX designers, program managers and product managers, support teams and other engineering teams to collaborate and build secure, scalable and operationally painless applicaitons. You’ll step-up as on-call for the team on a rotational basis to make sure our applications are in a healthy operating state. 

This is a remote role, requiring strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with distributed teams. You'll participate in virtual meetings, utilize collaboration tools, and maintain consistent communication with team members, who are spread across multiple time-zones in the US and LATAM. 

What you’ll do:

• Design and implement advanced web-apps using React, Next.Js and Typescript 
• Develop scalable and efficient backend services and APIs with Python.
• Design end to end solutions with AWS software suite (EKS, SNS/SQS, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch)
• Design, develop, and implement comprehensive automated tests (Selenium, Playwright)
• Develop containerized infrastructure (Docker/Kubernetes) on AWS, set up CI/CD pipelines, and own observability (metrics, logging, tracing).
• Have a security-first mindset and design fine-grained RBAC, encryption, and auditability for sensitive and diverse data modalities.
• Support legacy web-applications (PHP) and contribute to their modernization efforts
• Ensure healthy operations of the team owned applications as on-call on a rotational basis
• Communicate effectively in a remote work-environment and collaborate with team members across different timezones. 

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of software developer experience, ideally with Python and PHP,  and a modern web development stack such as React, NextJs
• Familiarity with principles of user experience design and the techniques to glue together backend enterprise systems and web interfaces
• Experience with container-based development and delivery
• Strong drive to ask questions, learn and grow your development skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior experience in cloud development (AWS preferred)

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.