Principal Software Engineer

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Who we are:

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. Learn more about us and why we work here at https://www.galileo-ft.com/working-at-galileo.

The role:

As a Principal 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.

What you’ll do:

• Be a technical advisor to the VP of Engineering, weighing in on a variety of topics concerning the evolution of our platform.
• Own driving Galileo’s software architecture and systems forward, setting long term direction and executing on it across multiple teams and quarters. While we have a strong need for a focus on our data architecture and data engineering systems, your role will be exposed to the …