Summary: Seeking an experienced contractor with extensive expertise in scripting, server configuration, and infrastructure management to support and optimize the Department WIC data system and associated applications. This role involves daily technical support, troubleshooting, and enhancing system performance through strategic recommendations.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct daily development and technical support for the Department WIC data system and interfaces, including EBT system and other applications.
• Troubleshoot and provide solutions for daily processing and development issues.
• Maintain and submit documentation on system performance, including maintenance and process corrections.
• Identify and recommend operational efficiencies to enhance system performance.
• Conduct evaluations of new software or hardware and recommend technologies to support business processes.
• Analyze and document technical requirements for system fixes, modifications, and enhancements.
• Produce work plans for implementing infrastructure requirements for system platform improvements.
• Create scripts for system fixes, modifications, enhancements, interfaces, and integration processes.
• Conduct and document testing results for system modifications and enhancements.
• Produce documentation for system modifications and enhancements as required.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of ten years in scripting and infrastructure management using PowerShell, SQL, Python, and MS batch scripts.
• Ten years of experience in configuring Windows server installations and applying security best practices.
• Five years of experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) using platforms such as Kubernetes, Helm, and Ansible.
• Five years with Microsoft SCCM or Intune and management of end-user workstations.
• Five years supporting Linux/BSD server installations.
• Five years of experience with Active Directory and group policies.
• Five years of experience supporting business applications in cloud-native architectures.
• Understanding of network protocols, topologies, VLANs, subnets, and route tables.
• Exceptional logical troubleshooting skills and self-motivation, evidenced by career achievements or advancements.

Ll:#Onsite 

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 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

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)
• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience

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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.