Principal Engineer, Cyberbank Core

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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 a Principal Software Engineer on the Cyberbank Core team at Galileo, you will lead broad, impactful projects across multiple teams as one of the senior-most technical contributors shaping our next-generation lean core banking platform. Your influence will span teams, projects, and geographies, driving both technical direction and how our teams design, build, and operate the services and data pipelines that power scalable, performant, and secure banking products.

You will be hands-on and in the details as an exemplary practitioner: in the software we develop, in the infrastructure we operate, and in the tools and techniques we use to test, release, and maintain it at scale. You will help teams evolve codebases to ship improvements safely and frequently in a regulated, cloud-native environment. As part of this, you will steward a broader engineering community and mentor engineers across the organization.

You will proactively identify the right problems to solve and advocate for organizational priorities. This role is inherently cross-functional, you will work closely with engineering, product, compliance, data, and executive stakeholders to define and execute on technical strategy for Cyberbank Core. You'll face and solve a wide range of challenges: architectural, operational, and product-related, across multiple products and geographies.

What You’ll Do:

• Own driving Cyberbank Core's software architecture and systems forward — setting long-term direction and executing on it across multiple teams and quarters, with a particular focus on the core banking services, data pipelines, and API platform.
• Build as an exemplary practitioner: get hands-on developing software and set a high quality standard for teams to follow.
• Define the right boundaries, APIs, and integrations between teams and with clients and partners to ensure technical and business success across multiple geographies.
• Solve complex engineering problems endemic to high-availability, low-latency, scalable distributed systems in a regulated banking environment.
• Execute large-scale projects — leading design, planning, and execution across multiple teams to drive technical direction and product outcomes.
• Drive the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS services and data engineering pipelines that support next-generation core banking capabilities.
• Proactively identify broader problems and opportunities. Anticipate and design the next generation of our systems and products.
• Raise the quality of our engineering teams: identify opportunities and advocate for improvements to how we write software, our approach to testing and quality, and the habits and processes of highly effective teams.
• Mentor and coach individuals and teams across the company. Steward engineering communities, fostering design collaboration and mindshare.
• Articulate how technical architecture and team structure interact, and provide input on the right organizational structure to deliver on our engineering goals.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership, representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders and participating in strategic planning.
• Continuously drive improvement, new practices, and operational excellence initiatives across the department.
• Champion improvements in code, design, and operational reviews. Lead initiatives that improve department software quality and operations. Be a stakeholder in engineering norms and standards for code quality, software quality, and operational excellence.

What You’ll Need:

• 10+ years of programming experience; mastery of software development independent of language.
• Advanced expertise in designing, building, and operating large-scale fault-tolerant distributed systems, applications, databases, and workflows.
• Demonstrated experience with continuous delivery principles and techniques: you've built systems with layered test automation that is always safe for automated releases to production, enabling a great, low-cycle-time developer experience.
• Deep expertise in designing and managing cloud-based solutions with a strong focus on resiliency experience with AWS (or other public cloud infrastructure) required.
• A high standard for what "great" looks like, and experience continuously improving legacy systems to reach it.
• Strong judgment, and experience recognizing and driving out critical decisions in a balanced and pragmatic way.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across remote, distributed teams.
• Experience working in a regulated industry.
• Experience working on banking backends, particularly cores, ledgers, or payment systems is a plus.
• Bi-lingual Spanish/English required.

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.

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