
Principal Software Engineer
Galileo Financial Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $192,000 - $330,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed Systems
About 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- 10+ years programming experience, mastery of software development independent of language
- 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, Spanish a plus.
- Ability to lead and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
Benefits
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software developmentlarge-scale systems designfault-tolerant systemsdatabasesworkflowscontinuous deliverytest automationlegacy system improvementpublic cloud infrastructureAWS
Soft skills
leadershipinfluencejudgmentcommunicationproblem-solvingcross-functional collaborationpragmatismadvocacytechnical strategypersonal growth