Offer summary

Qualifications:

3+ years of software development experience, Technical leadership in engineering functions, Familiarity with microservices and event-driven architectures, Experience with secure software practices.

Key responsabilities:

Design scalable distributed solutions

Lead large-scale projects with a customer-first mindset

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. We’re working toward our mission with a team that uniquely and strategically combines banking veterans with technology experts. The banking experts provide decades of industry experience, and the tech experts can build a mobile app that offers everyone access to premium banking, including quicker access to your money, high-yield savings, and automatic saving tools. Varo has raised over $992.4m to date, from leading institutional investors and strategic partners including Warburg Pincus, The Rise Fund, Gallatin Point Capital, Harbourvest Partners, Progressive Insurance, Russell Westbrook Enterprises, and Lone Pine Capital. Varo. Varo. A bank for all of us.

Job description

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.

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

3+ 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