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.