Software Engineer, Core API

Position: Staff Software Engineer, Core API

The role

You will steward the 'building blocks' of modern fintech. Our APIs empower clients to build unique financial experiences, meaning your team's work directly powers the innovation of some of the world's largest fintechs.

What you’ll do

• Build the Golden Path: Design and deliver reusable frameworks and shared infrastructure that help product squads ship secure, observable, and compliant services by default.
• Create Platform Abstractions: Identify repeated implementation patterns and turn them into modular platform components that reduce duplication and simplify service development.
• Improve Traceability and Observability: Drive adoption of common telemetry and request-correlation patterns so teams can troubleshoot and operate services more effectively.
• Advance Contract-First Development: Help make technical contracts the source of truth for service development, with tooling that keeps implementation, documentation, and schemas aligned.
• Raise the DX (Developer Experience) Bar: Build platform tools that teams adopt because they are faster, clearer, and easier to use than bespoke alternatives.
• Navigate Trade-offs Well: Make sound technical decisions that balance standardization, delivery speed, and the practical needs of individual teams.
• Partner Across Teams: Work closely with engineers, managers, and adjacent platform teams to align on patterns, priorities, and rollout plans.
• Mentor Through Practice: Coach engineers through design reviews, code review, docs, and shared implementation work; help maintain core platform libraries and support an inner source contribution model.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Distributed Systems
  
  Experience:
  
  8+ years of experience designing and scaling resilient software systems, ideally with strong Python experience.
• Platform Mindset: Experience building shared libraries, services, proxies, or frameworks used by internal engineering teams.
• Modern SDLC Depth: Hands‑on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, schema validation, and production delivery pipelines.
• Cross‑Team Influence: A track record of driving technical direction and gaining buy‑in from peer teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Cloud & Kubernetes
  
  Experience:
  
  Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes‑based environments.
• Pragmatic Engineering Judgment: Ability to identify when a problem should be standardized, abstracted, or left local.

Nice to have

• Framework Expertise: Familiarity with Python Flask and/or FastAPI frameworks.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform for delivering standardized infrastructure templates.
• API Governance: Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger standards and the governance of large‑scale API catalogs.
• Observability & Identity
  
  Experience:
  
  Experience with distributed tracing, metric taxonomies, and service‑to‑service authentication (S2SA) patterns.
• Fin Tech
  
  Experience:
  
  Domain knowledge in payment systems or highly regulated financial technology environments.

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.

Galileo Financial Technologies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and other characteristics.

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.

Galileo is committed to an inclusive culture. 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  to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.#J-18808-Ljbffr