Principal Engineer, Lucerne

Overview

Employee Privacy Notice and role overview provided by Galileo Financial Technologies. We are seeking a Principal Engineer with experience in the design and operations of multi-channel white-labeled platforms. You will lead the design and evolution of our platform to support the needs of both on-prem and hosted customers. Your influence will span teams, projects and locations, shaping technical direction and how our teams build and operate software systems.You will be responsible for defining frontend architecture standards, guiding engineering teams, and ensuring that user-facing platforms are robust, maintainable, secure, and future-proof. You will work closely with product management, UX, backend architects, and delivery teams to translate business and user needs into elegant technical solutions. This role is cross-functional and involves collaboration with engineering, product, risk, compliance, data, legal, and executive teams to define and execute technical strategy.This is a senior, hands-on architecture role combining strategic design responsibility with deep technical execution. What you\'ll do Define and evolve the frontend architecture across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with other engineering leaders in the evolution of the digital platform architecture.Deliver engineering efficiency and standardization of non-functional requirements. Be a technical advisor to the Director of Engineering, weighing in on topics concerning the evolution of our platform. Be hands-on developing software and set a high quality standard for teams to follow. Define boundaries, APIs, and integrations between our teams and with clients and partners to set us up for technical and business success.Experience operating, supporting and running software in production environments. Experience architecting the distribution of SDKs, libraries and components to other engineering teams. Solve complex engineering problems in high-availability, low-latency, scalable distributed systems. Execute large-scale projects, leading design, planning, and execution across multiple teams to drive technical directions and product outcomes.Identify broader problems and opportunities; anticipate and design the next generation of systems and products. Raise the quality of engineering teams by advocating improvements to software, testing, and engineering practices. Mentor and coach individuals and teams; foster design collaboration and mindshare.Articulate how technical architecture and team structure interact; provide input on organizational structure to deliver engineer goals. Strategic advisor to leadership, representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders, and participating in strategic planning. Continuously drive improvement and operational excellence across the department.Raise the quality of department and products by standing up processes, mechanisms, or tools to improve engineering excellence, operations, and quality. Take initiative and deliver timely results in a fast-paced environment. What you\'ll need 10+ years of programming experience, mastery of software development independent of language.Advanced expertise in designing frontend platforms including mobile, web, SDKs and micro-frontends. Advanced expertise in designing, building, and operating large-scale fault-tolerant distributed systems, applications, databases, and workflows. Ability to translate product and UX concepts into scalable technical solutions.Experience with continuous delivery principles and techniques; automated testable releases to production and low-cycle time developer experience. A high standard for what“great” looks like and experience improving legacy systems to reach it. Strong judgment and experience driving critical decisions pragmatically.Experience building systems with public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Spanish a plus. Ability to lead and influence technical direction across multiple teams. Experience working in distributed teams across time zones and willingness to adapt working hours when needed.Technology requirements Deep experience in ReactJS Experience with Java and NodeJS Strong understanding of web technologies and standards: Browser internals and performance optimization Security best practices (XSS, CSRF, auth flows, secure storage, etc.) API integration (REST, GraphQL) JavaScript / TypeScriptHTML5, CSS3, responsive design Modern build and tooling ecosystems (Webpack, Vite, npm/yarn/pnpm, etc.) Mobile native/hybrid development (ReactNative, Cordova, Swift, Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform) Equal Employment Opportunities

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 an inclusive culture and 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. 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 open roles.

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