Director of Engineering, Cyberbank Core New

Galileo Financial Technologies, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Galileo Financial Technologies, a leading financial technology company, is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the development of Cyberbank Core. This high-impact role involves shaping the technical strategy, managing teams, and fostering innovation within the bank core platform, ultimately supporting the growth and scalability of the services. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in software engineering and leadership, particularly within cloud-based environments, while contributing to a culture of excellence and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in leadership.
• Deep expertise in managing cloud-based solutions.
• Bi-Lingual Spanish/English is a MUST.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design and execution of platform capabilities for scalable banking products.
• Manage multiple remote engineering teams and align stakeholders.
• Attract and retain top-tier engineering talent.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Collaboration

Technical Excellence

Customer-Centric Thinking

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related

Tools

AWS

Job description

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 an experienced Director of Engineering to lead the technical strategy, development and execution of our next generation bank core, Cyberbank Core. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for building the services, infrastructure, and data pipelines that power our next-generation lean core banking platform.

This leader will drive the design and delivery of platform capabilities that support scalable, performant, and secure banking products. You’ll manage multiple teams, align cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure the services your org delivers accelerate—not constrain—product development across the company.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the technical vision and delivery execution
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineering leaders to align work with business needs
• Ensure the codebase and platform supports rapid product development across multiple products and geographies while maintaining quality, compliance, and operational excellence
• Attract, retain, and develop top-tier engineering talent
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and customer-centric thinking
• Manage multiple remote engineering teams across platform and framework domains
• Ensure reliable, secure, and scalable engineering practices
• Drive the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS services and data engineering pipelines.
  
  

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years of proven experience in leadership roles, preferably within mobile and web domain, including backend.
• Deep expertise in designing and managing cloud-based solutions with a strong focus on resiliency .
• Strong understanding of agile development principles and tools.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Experience with AWS (or other public cloud infra) and modern stacks
• Experience working in a regulated industry.
• Experience working on banking backends, particularly cores/ledgers, is a plus.
• Bi-Lingual Spanish/English is a MUST

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 (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.

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 [e-mail].

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.

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