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 ideally 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.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Compensation: The United States base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity depending on experience

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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.
  
  

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 www.galileo-ft.com. 

The role:

You will steward the 'building blocks' of modern fintech. Our APIs empower clients to build unique financial experiences, meaning your team's work directly powers the innovation of some of the world's largest fintechs.

What you’ll do:

• Build the Golden Path: Design and deliver reusable frameworks and shared infrastructure that help product squads ship secure, observable, and compliant services by default.
• Create Platform Abstractions: Identify repeated implementation patterns and turn them into modular platform components that reduce duplication and simplify service development.
• Improve Traceability and Observability: Drive adoption of common telemetry and request-correlation patterns so teams can troubleshoot and operate services more effectively.
• Advance Contract-First Development: Help make technical contracts the source of truth for service development, with tooling that keeps implementation, documentation, and schemas aligned.
• Raise the DX (Developer Experience) Bar: Build platform tools that teams adopt because they are faster, clearer, and easier to use than bespoke alternatives.
• Navigate Trade-offs Well: Make sound technical decisions that balance standardization, delivery speed, and the practical needs of individual teams.
• Partner Across Teams: Work closely with engineers, managers, and adjacent platform teams to align on patterns, priorities, and rollout plans.
• Mentor Through Practice: Coach engineers through design reviews, code review, docs, and shared implementation work; help maintain core platform libraries and support an innersource contribution model.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Distributed Systems Experience: 8+ years of experience designing and scaling resilient software systems, ideally with strong Python experience.
• Platform Mindset: Experience building shared libraries, services, proxies, or frameworks used by internal engineering teams.
• Modern SDLC Depth: Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, schema validation, and production delivery pipelines.
• Cross-Team Influence: A track record of driving technical direction and gaining buy-in from peer teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Cloud & Kubernetes Experience: Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Pragmatic Engineering Judgment: Ability to identify when a problem should be standardized, abstracted, or left local.

Nice to have:

• Framework Expertise: Familiarity with Python Flask and/or FastAPI frameworks.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform for delivering standardized infrastructure templates.
• API Governance: Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger standards and the governance of large-scale API catalogs.
• Observability & Identity Experience: Experience with distributed tracing, metric taxonomies, and service-to-service authentication (S2SA) patterns.
• FinTech Experience: Domain knowledge in payment systems or highly regulated financial technology environments.

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.