Varo Bank is hiring a
Principal Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Engineer at Varo, an all-digital bank. The role involves designing, building, and evolving the core banking/lending infrastructure, working with product managers, leading large-scale projects, identifying areas of opportunity, defining technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and having 15+ years of industry experience in software development.

Requirements

• 15+ 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 software security practices

Responsibilities

• Partner with the 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 large-scale projects from ideation to creation with a customer-first mindset
• Identify areas of opportunity and innovation and take these projects to the finish line
• Define technical strategy with a drive to improve products, infrastructure, processes, or organizations

Benefits

$220,000 - $280,000 a year salary range