Staff Software Engineer, Galileo Financial Technologies
Core API
$153.6-264k
Global payments processing platform
Open for applications
Global payments processing platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$153.6-264k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Galileo's mission is to expanding the financial frontier by powering the world's most innovative Fintechs.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
The global neobanking market is still growing at a staggering rate, valued at more than $50 billion and forecast to grow 50% annually for the foreseeable future. While companies like Revolut, Monzo, and Wise have been at the forefront of this digital revolution, Galileo has been a major background player.
In essence, the 2001-founded company provides some of the world’s leading fintechs (including the aforementioned Monzo and Wise), with the software and infrastructure they need to issue cards, process payments, and build innovative digital banking products.
The Fintech industry as a whole sat up and took notice when SoFi acquired Galileo for $1.2 billion in 2020, a year before going public. However, it's worth noting that since then, Galileo has continued operating as an independent subsidiary.
New partnerships with the likes of Fundbox and Global Rewards indicate that business is still booming for Galileo, while the company also looks to be exploring new, potentially very lucrative avenues in the crypto industry.
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Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2019
$77m
SERIES A
May 2014
$8.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $85.3m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits
- Generous vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) and education on retirement planning Retirement plans and planning
- Tuition reimbursement on approved programs
- Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
- Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
- Fully stocked kitchen (snacks and drinks)
Company HQ
Sandy, UT
Leadership
Bill Kennedy
(CEO)Previously VP of Product at Salesforce, CFO/COO at Tomax Corporation and was the CFO at SirsiDynix.
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