Software Development Manager

The role:

As the Manager of the Galileo Cards and Messaging team, you will be responsible for leading a team to ensure the highest levels of availability, performance, and security of the Galileo messaging platform and leading initiatives to improve overall capabilities in a highly distributed and dynamic environment. 

The role requires an experienced engineering leader with excellent cross-functional and communication skills as well as backgrounds in operations, software development, systems performance, and resilience engineering.  Always focusing on the quality experience of our customers.

 What you’ll do: 

• Own the vision of the future Galileo Cards and Messaging platform
• Lead by example, care for the team, and establish credibility with the quality of the team’s technical execution
• Lead the development, delivery, and operation of the Messaging service
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of system availability
• Nurture a culture of continuous improvement and blameless retrospection  within the organization
• Grow and mentor a team of engineers, building their talents by exposing them to new challenges and experiences
• Participate in deep technical design discussions within the team, and across partner teams to ensure that we're building the right systems and keeping the quality high
• Track project performance against defined milestones/goals.
• Conduct process improvement projects to increase performance in vital program metrics.
• Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leadership

What you’ll need:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject 
• 8+ years of experience with software development
• 3+ years of experience managing a team of engineers (can overlap with programming experience)
• Consistent track record of performance management and career development of individual contributors
• Ability to engage in technical and business discussions from both tactical and strategic viewpoints
• Experience with operating in Cloud and distributed systems
• Experience with Continuous Delivery principles and techniques
• Experience with DevOps and full ownership of services from development to production
• Ability to balance delivering on business objectives while also protecting the long term quality of platform
• Experience leading cross-organizational efforts with different teams to ensure successful delivery of projects

Nice to have:

• Expertise in building and deploying software using cloud services and AWS platforms including VPCs, ECS/EKS, etc.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments such as FinTech

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