Galileo is looking to solve the problem of leading broad, impactful projects across multiple teams and shaping the technical direction of the company, while also driving improvement, new practices, and operational excellence initiatives across the department.
Requirements
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Other
- Ability to lead and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
- Mentor and coach to individuals and teams across the company. Steward engineering communities, fostering design collaboration and mindshare.
- Strategic advisor to leadership, representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders, and participating in strategic planning.
- US-Based Base Compensation $172,800—$297,000 USD
- Galileo Financial Technologies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.
