Director, Software Engineering
Galileo Financial Technologies
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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
We are seeking a Director, Software Engineering to play a pivotal role in our Money product architecture transformation, focusing on the evolution of our banking core and the implementation of enhanced account structures, including readiness for new products like CDs, youth accounts etc. This position involves building out and maturing our member-facing Money and Banking services, particularly in areas such as banking core, money business logic around payments, entitlements and E2E user experience. You’ll be working within a highly collaborative environment where planning and executing through a unified campaign lens is essential due to the complexity and interdependencies of these initiatives.
At SoFi, we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product, Design and Engineering and so you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, deploying and continual improvement and evolution - and you’ll be working with an all-star team of talented engineers.
What you’ll do:
- Be on the front line of driving growth/adoption of our products
- Grow and Manage a large high performing team with multiple Senior managers and full stack engineers.
- Drive Architecture and technically lead development of highly scalable modular E2E banking stack across UI, compliant business services and banking core.
- Identify and evaluate new patterns and technologies to improve the performance, maintainability and scalability of our systems towards supporting the hockey stick growth of Money member sign ups, deposits and transactions.
- Leveraging SoFi’s unique position as a Fintech and a Bank - Design software architecture and data flows for scalable end to end web services and banking stack towards realization of the AWS of Fintech Goal and Top 10 Financial institution in US.
- Lead the development and delivery of features with a Member first mindset towards higher Member NPS and adoption.
- Participate in shaping the technical architecture
- Help translate user stories into technical solutions
- Mentor engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
- Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
- Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s Degree, in a technical field
- 7+ years of management experience or experience leading a large team
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally on a modern stack
- Maintain code quality, performance, and sound architectural principles
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done
- Strong sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion
- Experience working in a collaborative coding environment , refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
- Superior communication skills, written and verbal.
- Deep curiosity for how complex (financial) systems work, and an ability to internalize and analyze this information quickly
- A blend of demonstrated business, product management, engineering and execution skills
- Passion for your customers! You do right by them, always
- Experience in Fintech is a big plus
Galileo Financial Technologies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.
The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
New York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights
Galileo is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, Galileo offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com.
Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
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