Staff Software Engineer, Galileo Financial Technologies
$153.6-264k
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Global payments processing platform
Open for applications
Global payments processing platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$153.6-264k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Galileo's mission is to expanding the financial frontier by powering the world's most innovative Fintechs.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to lead a team's technical direction, and mentor engineers in technical leadership
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
- Object oriented programming experience including scaling, performance optimization, and code architecture using optimal patterns (e.g. Python, Java, C#, we use Python)
- Demonstrated expertise with data store and microservices architecture in a cloud
- Demonstrated ability to design resilient software components within a distributed system
- Hands-on experience with Continuous Delivery principles and techniques, including full suite automation tests and build & deploy pipelines
- Demonstrated experience with monitoring and alerting tools
Desirable
- 3+ years experience with Python
- Experience working with Fintech
What the job involves
- We are looking for experienced software engineers excited to help drive our product and infrastructure development at rapid scale for our Credit Card Authorization platform
- On the Pathfinder Authorization and Settlement team, you will be in the middle of it all – architecting our system, partnering with EMs and PMs on product direction, prompting engineering and operational excellence, mentoring other engineers, and solving some of the most difficult issues in the system
- You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring and supporting mission critical systems
- You’ll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way, as well as helping mold and grow the members of the team
- Lead a team with technical designs, organized work, and coding and testing
- Write, test, and deploy maintainable, reliable, performant, scalable code to production
- Deliver highly available services in a production environment and be responsible for the monitoring and ability to quickly respond to incidents
- Participate in a 24/7 pager-rotation for services that the team develops
- Generate ideas for new initiatives, architectural and code refactoring, and introduction of new technologies
- Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team ensuring high trust and collaboration
- Collaborate with other engineering teams on joint projects
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.
The hiring of financial industry veteran Derek White as CEO, and new partnerships with the likes of Fundbox and Global Rewards indicates 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
Derek White
(CEO, not founder)Served as VP of Global FSI Cloud at Google before joining Galileo. Prior to this they were the Vice Chair & Chief Digital Officer at U.S. Bank. Previously spent almost a decade in senior roles at Barclays, including spells as Chief Customer Experience Officer, Global Retail & Business Banking, and Groupwide Chief Digital & Design Officer.
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