Senior Staff Software Engineer, Galileo Financial Technologies
$172.8-297k
Global payments processing platform
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Global payments processing platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$172.8-297k
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
- 10+ years programming experience, mastery of software development independent of language (Ideally in Python)
- 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
- A high standard for what “great” looks like, and experience continuously improving legacy systems to reach it
- Strong judgment, experience recognizing and driving out critical decisions in a balanced and pragmatic way
- Experience building systems with public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to lead and influence technical direction across multiple teams
What the job involves
- As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Galileo, you will lead broad, impactful projects across multiple teams as one of the senior-most technical contributors
- Your influence will span across teams, projects and locations, shaping both our technical direction as well as how our teams build and operate software systems
- You will be hands-on and in the details as an exemplary practitioner for both the software we develop, as well as the tools and techniques we use to test, release and operate it
- You will help teams evolve code-bases to ship improvements safely and frequently
- As part of this, you will steward a broader engineering community and mentor others
- You will proactively identify the problems to solve and advocate for the right organization priorities
- This role is inherently cross-functional and you will work closely with engineering, product, risk, compliance, data, legal, and executive teams to define and execute on technical strategy
- You’ll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way
- Own driving Galileo’s software architecture and systems forward, setting long term direction and executing on it across multiple teams and quarters
- Build as an exemplary practitioner: you will get to be hands-on developing software, and set a high quality standard for teams to follow
- Define the right boundaries, APIs, and integrations between our teams and with our clients and partners to set us up for technical and business success
- Solve complex engineering problems endemic to high-availability, low-latency, scalable distributed systems
- Execute large-scale projects, leading design, planning, and execution across multiple teams to drive technical directions and product outcomes
- Proactively identify broader problems and opportunities. Anticipate and design the next generation of our systems and products
- Raise the quality of our engineering teams: you will identify opportunities and advocate for improvements to the way we write software, our approach testing and quality, and shape the habits and processes of highly effective teams
- Mentor and coach to individuals and teams across the company. Steward engineering communities, fostering design collaboration and mindshare
- Articulate how technical architecture and team structure interact, provide input to the right organization structure to deliver on our engineer goals
- Strategic advisor to leadership, representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders, and participating in strategic planning
- Continuously drives improvement, new practices and operational excellence initiatives across the department (e.g. multiple groups)
- Raises the quality of department and products. Be able to stand up processes, mechanisms, or tools to improve engineering excellence, operations, and quality of our technology
- Through a combination of working through others and their contribution, improves the department's systems by championing improvements in code, design, and operational reviews. Leads initiatives that improve department software quality and operations. Be a stakeholder in engineering norms and standards for code quality, software quality, and operational excellence for your department
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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