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

Salary and compensation

No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, DevOps, Finance and Cloud jobs that are similar:

$55,000 — $100,000/year

Benefits

💰 401(k)

🌎 Distributed team

⏰ Async

🤓 Vision insurance

🦷 Dental insurance

🚑 Medical insurance

🏖 Unlimited vacation

🏖 Paid time off

📆 4 day workweek

💰 401k matching

🏔 Company retreats

🏬 Coworking budget

📚 Learning budget

💪 Free gym membership

🧘 Mental wellness budget

🖥 Home office budget

🥧 Pay in crypto

🥸 Pseudonymous

💰 Profit sharing

💰 Equity compensation

⬜️ No whiteboard interview

👀 No monitoring system

🚫 No politics at work

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