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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.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team.
What you’ll do:
- Architect resilient software components within a distributed Python and C environment (K8s, EKS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, etc).
- Take full ownership for solving complex problems from inception to execution.
- Drive team and organization strategy with minimal guidance, ensuring technical decisions directly support company goals.
- Proactively identify and resolve technical debt or process friction, simplifying the codebase and developer experience to improve team velocity.
- Coach and mentor engineers, to build a high-performance culture. Serve as a subject matter expert who remains approachable.
- Proactively communicate, identify and mitigate technical risks, navigating trade-offs between system constraints and business impact.
- Build trust with functional leaders and stakeholders, communicating highly technical concepts into clear dialogue to gain alignment on priorities.
- Work with Python and C applications to resolve wide-ranging issues, and drive feature implementation.
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 6+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack.
- Experience: 4+ years of experience writing high-quality, production-grade Python.
- 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.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud technologies (RDS, Aurora, Dynamo, EKS, or Lambda) and Kubernetes.
- Demonstrated ability to design resilient software components within a distributed system.
Nice to have:
- Familiarity with Python Flask and/or FastAPI frameworks.
- Experience developing in C.
- Domain knowledge in Payment Systems or financial tech.
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 an inclusive culture. 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.
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Senior 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:
- As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Galileo, you will lead broad, impactful projects across multiple teams as one of the senior-most technical contributors. Your influence will span across teams, projects and locations, shaping both our technical direction as well as how our teams build and operate software systems.
- You will be hands-on and in the details as an exemplary practitioner for both the software we develop, as well as the tools and techniques we use to test, release and operate it. You will help teams evolve code-bases to ship improvements safely and frequently. As part of this, you will steward a broader engineering community and mentor others.
- You will proactively identify the problems to solve and advocate for the right organization priorities. This role is inherently cross-functional and you will work closely with engineering, product, risk, compliance, data, legal, and executive teams to define and execute on technical strategy. You’ll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way.
What you’ll do:
- Own driving Galileo’s software architecture and systems forward, setting long term direction and executing on it across multiple teams and quarters.
- Build as an exemplary practitioner: you will get to be hands-on developing software, and set a high quality standard for teams to follow.
- Define the right boundaries, APIs, and integrations between our teams and with our clients and partners to set us up for technical and business success.
- Solve complex engineering problems endemic to high-availability, low-latency, scalable distributed systems.
- Execute large-scale projects, leading design, planning, and execution across multiple teams to drive technical directions and product outcomes.
- Proactively identify broader problems and opportunities. Anticipate and design the next generation of our systems and products.
- Raise the quality of our engineering teams: you will identify opportunities and advocate for improvements to the way we write software, our approach testing and quality, and shape the habits and processes of highly effective teams.
- Mentor and coach to individuals and teams across the company. Steward engineering communities, fostering design collaboration and mindshare.
- Articulate how technical architecture and team structure interact, provide input to the right organization structure to deliver on our engineer goals.
- Strategic advisor to leadership, representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders, and participating in strategic planning.
- Continuously drives improvement, new practices and operational excellence initiatives across the department (e.g. multiple groups).
- Raises the quality of department and products. Be able to stand up processes, mechanisms, or tools to improve engineering excellence, operations, and quality of our technology.
- Through a combination of working through others and their contribution, improves the department's systems by championing improvements in code, design, and operational reviews. Leads initiatives that improve department software quality and operations. Be a stakeholder in engineering norms and standards for code quality, software quality, and operational excellence for your department.
What you’ll need:
- 10+ years programming experience, mastery of software development independent of language (Java preferred)
- 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.
- A high standard for what “great” looks like, and experience continuously improving legacy systems to reach it.
- Strong judgment, experience recognizing and driving out critical decisions in a balanced and pragmatic way.
- Experience building systems with public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to lead and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
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 an inclusive culture. 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.
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Senior Support 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:
The Senior Support Engineer will be part of the Galileo Technical Operations team. You will be part of a team environment working to continuously improve our production platform. An essential part of the role is to develop a deep understanding of the Galileo systems that support the business deliverables across all platforms. The Senior Support Engineer will be responsible for designing, managing and supporting highly-available distributed systems in AWS, ensuring the reliability of the production environment, enhancing processes to improve efficiencies and implementing effective governance controls.
What you’ll do:
- Provide 24x7 on-call application support on a rotational basis and ensure system availability
- Record all incident-related information in real time, including actions taken, decisions made, and status updates
- Maintain highly available and scalable services in a highly available production environment.
- Participate in weekly activities and change windows for deployment.
- Monitor systems, capacities and provide technical support for issues that impact or degrade applications
- Engage during incidents, help provide high level issue explanation. Perform incident scribe functions to capture timelines and details and assist in incident root cause analysis (RCA).
- Provide technical support for non-incident related issues to resolve impacts to interfacing customer applications
- Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies to improve observability
- Perform trend analysis of application logs, system performance management data, et cetera to identify performance issues and drive improvements to ensure optimal performance
- Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
- Lead the development and testing of our auto healing systems.
What you’ll need to succeed:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience with log aggregation tools such as Splunk, Datadog, Coralogix (DataDog strongly preferred)
- Experience writing Oracle SQL queries
- Team first mentality
- Strong self-starter requiring minimal supervision
- 5+ years AWS Cloud Experience
- Strong Unix/Linux background
- Ability to write scripts using at least one of shell (bash, ksh) or Python (Python preferred)
- Experience with Gitlab deployment pipelines and knowledge of CI/CD best practices
- Experience working in or orchestrating Argo, Kubernetes or Docker is a plus
- Argo or other CI/CD tools experience is a huge plus
- Curiosity to learn new applications and technologies
- Aptitude and drive to run after problems and identify solutions
- Ability to collaborate and communicate well with other teams
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 an inclusive culture. 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Galileo Financial Technologies
Senior Staff Software Engineer
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Employee Applicant Privacy Notice
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 Senior Staff Software Engineer at Galileo, you will lead broad, impactful projects across multiple teams as one of the senior-most technical contributors. Your influence will span across teams, projects and locations, shaping both our technical direction as well as how our teams build and operate software systems.
- You will be hands-on and in the details as an exemplary practitioner for both the software we develop, as well as the tools and techniques we use to test, release and operate it. You will help teams evolve code-bases to ship improvements safely and frequently. As part of this, you will steward a broader engineering community and mentor others.
- You will proactively identify the problems to solve and advocate for the right organization priorities. This role is inherently cross-functional and you will work closely with engineering, product, risk, compliance, data, legal, and executive teams to define and execute on technical strategy. You’ll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way.
What you’ll do:
- Own driving Galileo’s software architecture and systems forward, setting long term direction and executing on it across multiple teams and quarters.
- Build as an exemplary practitioner: you will get to be hands-on developing software, and set a high quality standard for teams to follow.
- Define the right boundaries, APIs, and integrations between our teams and with our clients and partners to set us up for technical and business success.
- Solve complex engineering problems endemic to high-availability, low-latency, scalable distributed systems.
- Execute large-scale projects, leading design, planning, and execution across multiple teams to drive technical directions and product outcomes.
- Proactively identify broader problems and opportunities. Anticipate and design the next generation of our systems and products.
- Raise the quality of our engineering teams: you will identify opportunities and advocate for improvements to the way we write software, our approach testing and quality, and shape the habits and processes of highly effective teams.
- Mentor and coach to individuals and teams across the company. Steward engineering communities, fostering design collaboration and mindshare.
- Articulate how technical architecture and team structure interact, provide input to the right organization structure to deliver on our engineer goals.
- Strategic advisor to leadership, representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders, and participating in strategic planning.
- Continuously drives improvement, new practices and operational excellence initiatives across the department (e.g. multiple groups).
- Raises the quality of department and products. Be able to stand up processes, mechanisms, or tools to improve engineering excellence, operations, and quality of our technology.
- Through a combination of working through others and their contribution, improves the department's systems by championing improvements in code, design, and operational reviews. Leads initiatives that improve department software quality and operations. Be a stakeholder in engineering norms and standards for code quality, software quality, and operational excellence for your department.
What you’ll need:
- 10+ years programming experience, mastery of software development independent of language (Ideally in Python)
- 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.
- A high standard for what “great” looks like, and experience continuously improving legacy systems to reach it.
- Strong judgment, experience recognizing and driving out critical decisions in a balanced and pragmatic way.
- Experience building systems with public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to lead and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
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 an inclusive culture. 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Galileo Financial Technologies
Senior Software Engineer
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Employee Applicant Privacy Notice
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.
Galileo Financial Technologies, LLC seeks Senior Software Engineer in Seattle, WA:
Job Duties: Lead the development and testing of our systems and services. Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product. Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions. Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment. Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team. Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies. Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers. Part-time telecommuting is an option. Hybrid work from Galileo offices in WA.
Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline, and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field.
Special Skill Requirements: (1) Java; (2) Kotlin; (3) Spring; (4) PostgreSQL; (5) React; (6) Kubernetes; (7) Kafka; (8) Docker; (9) Posix; (10) JavaScript; (11) TypeScript; (12) Temporal; (13) DynamoDB; (14) Redis; (15) Kibana; and (16) AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EC2 and AWS IAM. Any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience is acceptable. Part-time telecommuting is an option. Hybrid work from Galileo offices in WA.
Salary: $210,000.00 - $231,000.00 per annum & standard company benefits.
Submit resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email to: Req.# 5.2 at: ATTN: HR, jobadverts@sofi.org.
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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 an inclusive culture. 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Galileo Financial Technologies