Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

CA- San Francisco / UT- Sandy / WA- Seattle / NY- New York City / FL- Jacksonville / DE- Greenville / MT- Helena

Welcoming, collaborative and having the opportunity to make an impact - is how our employees describe working here. Galileo is a financial technology company that provides innovative and revolutionary software products and services that power some of the world's largest Fintechs. We are the only payments innovator that applies tech and engineering capabilities to empower Fintechs and financial institutions to unleash their full creativity to achieve their most inspired goals. Galileo leads its industry with superior fraud detection, security, decision-making analytics and regulatory compliance functionality combined with customized, responsive and flexible programs to accelerate the success of all payments companies and solve tomorrow's payments challenges today. We hire energetic and creative employees while providing them the opportunity to excel in their careers and make a difference for our clients.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team.

What You'll Do:

• 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.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack.
• Experience: 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.

Compensation and Benefits The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate's experience, skills, and location. This role may also be eligible for a bonus and/or long term incentives. Your recruiter will provide more information to you. All roles are eligible for competitive benefits. More information about our employee benefits can be found in the link below.

US-Based Base Compensation

$153,600 - $264,000 USD