Staff Software Engineer - Banking

 Published 15 days ago
    
 United States
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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.


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.

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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
  • React, Athena


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$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.
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