Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us.
The Banking Engineering Team at Varo Bank is small but is growing rapidly. Our team is responsible for building and maintaining engineering solutions that power Varo’s core banking, lending, authentication, risk, offers, and marketplaces to achieve our goal to disrupt the banking industry and build products that help improve the financial wellbeing of our customers.
This is a backend focused position that deals with reliability, load, and scale in every thing that we do. System design thinking, reliable and quality code, and extreme customer focus are what you bring to the table. You’ll get to work in a fast-paced environment, with modern technology stacks, be part of a great and diverse workplace, and improve the financial lives of others.
What you'll be doing
Design and build scalable distributed solutions that our customers or employees can build their lives around
Evolve our core banking platform systems to support the latest financial services
Lead large-scale projects from ideation to creation with a customer-first mindset
Mentor engineers and help build a tech culture that makes magical products
Influence the technical strategy with a drive to improve products, infrastructure, processes, or organizations
Work cross-functionally with various engineering, product, and operations teams
You'll bring the following required skills and experiences
10+ years of industry experience in software development leading large and strategic high-impact areas in business
Technical leadership and ownership in bringing multiple engineering functions to production
Experience with scalable, distributed systems with a test-first approach
Deep understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures
Experience in strong consistency in a distributed environment, transactional databases, and caching systems
Deep understanding of the software security practices
Experience with testing methodologies including contract testing and testing in vendor environments
Technologies we use
Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot
AWS - EKS, S3, SNS, SQS, KMS
PostgreSQL, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Istio
Gitlab, Grafana, Loki
$160,000 - $200,000 a year
For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all US-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Per applicable law, the salary range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors as well as candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the identified range.