Staff Software Engineer, Backend

| Charlotte, NC
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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.

 

About the Engineering Team

 

The Backend Engineering Team at Varo Bank is small but is growing rapidly. The Backend engineering 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. You will get to work with new technology stacks, be part of a great and diverse workplace, and improve the financial lives of others. In our Engineering team we value personal growth, initiative and ownership, innovation, collaboration, and the importance of thinking like an engineer while building customer-first products.

 

As a Staff Software Engineer, Backend you'll...

 

  • Work with engineering team to help design, build and evolve the core banking/lending infrastructure for a bank for all of us
  • Design and build scalable distributed solutions that our customers can build their lives around
  • Work with product managers to understand business requirements to build the next-generation banking/lending platform
  • Lead end to end projects from ideation to creation with a customer-first mindset
  • Mentor engineers and help build a tech culture that makes magical products
  • Involved in technical strategy with a drive to improve products, infrastructure, processes, or organizations
  • Work cross-functionally with various engineering and product teams
  • Love solving and debugging problems big or small, i.e., major production issue or test issue
  • Make complicated things, very simple and demonstrate thought leadership

 

You have the following required experience...

  • 5+ years industry experience in software development leading large and strategic high-impact areas in business 
  • Technical leadership and ownership in bring multiple engineering functions to production
  • Loves to mentor and foster a strong innovation culture in the organization
  • 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 financial systems (banking, lending, payments), knowledge of ISO 8583, VISA DPS etc will catch our attention
  • Deep knowledge of databases, cac

 

Technologies we use...

  • Java, Kotlin
  • Spring, Spring Boot and Hibernate.
  • AWS - EKS, S3, SNS, SQS, KMS
  • PostgreSQL, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Istio
  • Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, Git
  • Jira, Confluence

 

 

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About Varo

Varo launched in 2017 with the vision to bring the best of fintech into the regulated banking system. We’re a new kind of bank – all digital, mission-driven, FDIC-insured, and designed around the modern American consumer. 

 

As the first consumer fintech to be granted a national bank charter in 2020, we make financial inclusion and opportunity for all a reality by empowering everyone with the products, insights, and support they need to get ahead. Through our core product offerings and suite of customer-first features, we aim to address a broad range of consumer needs while profitably serving underserved communities that have been historically excluded from the traditional financial system.

 

We are growing quickly in our hub locations of San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Charlotte along with colleagues located across the country. We have been recognized among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Fintech 50, and earned the No. 7 spot on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies across the country.

 

Varo. A bank for all of us.

 

Our Core Values

- Customers First

- Take Ownership

- Respect

- Stay Curious

- Make it Better

 

 

Varo is an equal opportunity employer. Varo embraces diversity and we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

 

Learn more about Varo by following us:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/varomoney

Instagram - www.instagram.com/varobank

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/varobank

Twitter - https://twitter.com/varobank

Engineering Blog - https://medium.com/engineering-varo

SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/varobank

 

Beware of fraudulent job postings!

Varo will never ask for payment to process documents, refer you to a third party to process applications or visas, or ask you to pay costs. Never send money to anyone suggesting they can provide work with Varo. If you suspect you have received a phony offer, please e-mail [email protected] with the pertinent information and contact information.

 

More Information on Varo Bank
Varo Bank operates in the Fintech industry. The company is located in San Francisco, CA, Draper, UT and Charlotte, NC. Varo Bank was founded in 2015. It has 1000 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Volunteer in local community, Friends outside of work, Eat lunch together, Open door policy, Team based strategic planning and Open office floor plan. To see all 7 open jobs at Varo Bank, click here.
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