Senior Back End Software Engineer

Summary

Join Galileo as a Backend Engineer and lead a team in building highly scalable, micro-service based systems for internal and external clients. You will manage the software development lifecycle, design REST APIs, implement CI/CD, and generate new initiatives. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for clean code, problem-solving skills, and experience mentoring teams. This role requires expertise in AWS, Python, and Agile development. The company offers competitive benefits and compensation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Software Engineering, etc.) or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of experience in backend software development
• 3+ years of professional experience with Python
• Expert in AWS tech stack including Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis Firehose, SQS, SNS, EKS, EC2, S3, IAM Roles, VPC Endpoints
• Experience in creating IaaS using Terraform or related technologies
• Demonstrated professional expertise in design patterns, security, performance, and usability
• Agile Development Experience, including working with continuous deployment technologies, such as Git/Gitlab
• Experience designing SPAs that interact with REST API endpoints
• Fluency in SQL for data queries
• Familiar with working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews, and managing pull requests
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them to technical requirements
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to lead and mentor a small technical team

Responsibilities

• Be an impactful contributor to the team to plan, design, and build elegant solutions
• Managing the complete software development process from conception to deployment
• Design and implementation of the overall architecture
• Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
• Design and build REST API’s
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment
• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
• Domain expert on aspects of the payment processing industry
• Communicate engineering concepts and efforts with outside stakeholders in product marketing, operations, business, legal, and compliance
• Work in a fast-moving, highly-collaborative environment across multiple locations

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior exposure to the payments industry and familiarity with risk and fraud solutions
• Familiarity with Snowflake
• Familiarity with web caching, load balancing

Benefits

• Bonus
• Long term incentives
• Competitive benefits