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.

We're looking for a Data Engineer who can handle both the operational side of data infrastructure keeping pipelines healthy, debugging issues, tuning performance and the architectural side of building event-driven systems for AI-powered products. You'll work across different client projects, from supporting existing data stacks to designing new pipelines for real-time behavioral analytics and machine learning workloads.

What are the main responsibilities of this role?

On some projects, you'll be the person keeping the engine running: monitoring ingestion pipelines, triaging alerts, tuning warehouse performance, and making sure scheduled jobs don't break. On others, you'll be designing and building new data infrastructure from scratch  event-driven architectures, real-time signal processing, and data models that power AI agents and ML pipelines. You'll need to be comfortable switching between these modes depending on what the project needs

You're someone who can operate independently once you understand the context. You know how to read logs, trace data issues, and fix things without panicking. You communicate clearly both with technical teammates and with clients who may not speak data fluently. You're equally comfortable stabilizing a legacy system and designing something new. You ask good questions before diving in.

Which skills and experience do we envision for this role?

• +4 years of experience in data engineering
• Advanced SQL and Python proficiency
• Strong experience with cloud data warehouses (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar)
• Hands-on experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar)
• Experience with ETL/ELT pipeline development and maintenance
• Familiarity with data ingestion tools (Fivetran, Segment, Stitch, or similar)
• Experience working in AWS environments (S3, Lambda, and general cloud infrastructure)
• Experience with pipeline monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Ability to debug production data issues under pressure

Nice to have:

• Experience with event-driven architectures (EventBridge, Kafka, or similar)
• Familiarity with real-time data processing and streaming
• Experience with PostgreSQL and Supabase
• Exposure to DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases
• Understanding of data modeling for analytics and machine learning
• Experience supporting ML/AI workloads and feature pipelines
• Exposure to BI tools such as Looker, Metabase, or similar

Join our team and enjoy:

• Access to Rootstrap University,Conferences/Certifications, and a Mentorship Program for your professional growth.
• Learning Bonus 
• Opportunities to organize cross-functional initiatives and receive 360 Feedback to improve your skills continuously.
• The flexibility to work remotely or from our offices in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and Medellín, with a flexible time schedule and Workation program.
• Gym benefits, psychological counseling, and weekly lunch reimbursements with special foods in the offices.
• An Onboarding kit and access to cutting-edge technologies and tools to make your work easier.
• Referrals program bonuses, After offices, Prizes, and special occasions gifts to celebrate your achievements.
• People Care referent to support your well-being and personal development.

We value your well-being and happiness. We grow together!

How we work:

• We offer a flexible and diverse work environment that fosters multicultural talent
• We value autonomy and creativity, We want people to bring ideas to the table and to think as leaders.
• We put our focus on real human connections
• We have a commitment to excellence

At Rootstrap, we help companies launch, grow, and scale their digital products and services. With over 290 global team members, we’ve built solutions for industry leaders like MasterClass, Universal, and Google, as well as for innovative startups and inspired pioneers. Our team takes pride in making an impact that goes beyond the code, earning regular recognition as a Fastest Growing Company and Best B2B Service Provider.

We embrace an AI-first mindset, continuously exploring how artificial intelligence can enhance the way we build products, solve problems, and deliver value. Across all stages of the development process, we encourage our teams to actively leverage AI to boost productivity and drive innovation.

With offices in Uruguay, Argentina, and Colombia, we offer the flexibility to work remotely. Discover more about life at Rootstrap at https://www.rootstrap.com/careers.

All of our candidate searches are covered under Uruguayan Law 19691 (the purpose of this law is to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities).

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