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 worlds 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 tomorrows 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.

About the role
Were looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to manage and grow a
high-performing team within our Card Processing space. You’ll set the technical
direction, partner closely with Product and Operations, and drive delivery across key
initiatives. This role involves deep architectural thinking, improving team processes,
and fostering a culture of growth and innovation. You’ll play a key role in scaling
resilient systems and supporting strategic product development at SoFi and Galileo.

What you’ll do:
- Build and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Lead and set the echnical direction of the team.
- Partner with engineering and operational teams across the company to drive strategic echnical and business delivery.
- Partner with Product Managers on both long term product vision and short term roadmaps
- Dive deep on all aspects of the overall design of the system. Leveraging experience and deep technical knowledge, provide leadership in evolving testing and deployment strategies.
- Continue improving team processes that optimize for product and operational flows.
- Grow your people and foster a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth.
- Be an expert of the various domains that fall under the purview of the Card Processing space to support various SoFi/Galileo Product teams.

What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 8+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack (Python or Java)
- 5+ years of software engineering management experience (can overlap with programming experience)
- Banking/Fintech experience (Mandatory).
- Hands-on experience with Continuous Delivery principles and techniques, including unit testing and build & deploy pipelines
- Ability to coordinate and deliver work with dependencies across multiple teams
- Demonstrated expertise in building and operating resilient software components within a large scale distributed system
- Experience building/operating services on AWS/cloud environment
- Credit and/or issuer processing experience is a plus, but not required

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.

Internal Employees

If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.