Galileo Financial Technologies is hiring a Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect resilient software components within a distributed Python and C environment (K8s, EKS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, etc)
• Take full ownership for solving complex problems from inception to execution
• Drive team and organization strategy with minimal guidance, ensuring technical decisions directly support company goals
• Proactively identify and resolve technical debt or process friction, simplifying the codebase and developer experience to improve team velocity
• Coach and mentor engineers, to build a high-performance culture
• Serve as a subject matter expert who remains approachable
• Proactively communicate, identify and mitigate technical risks, navigating trade-offs between system constraints and business impact
• Build trust with functional leaders and stakeholders, communicating highly technical concepts into clear dialogue to gain alignment on priorities
• Work with Python and C applications to resolve wide-ranging issues, and drive feature implementation

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 6+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack
• 4+ years of experience writing high-quality, production-grade Python
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Delivery principles and techniques, including unit testing and build & deploy pipelines
• Ability to lead and influence a team's technical direction
• Hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud technologies (RDS, Aurora, Dynamo, EKS, or Lambda) and Kubernetes
• Demonstrated ability to design resilient software components within a distributed system

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Python Flask and/or FastAPI frameworks
• Experience developing in C
• Domain knowledge in Payment Systems or financial tech