Varo Bank is hiring a
Sr. Data Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Senior Engineer, Data Engineering role at Varo Bank. The role involves contributing to the development of Varo’s data platform by designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines, working with AWS big data technologies, providing technical leadership in the area of data systems development, collaborating with business partners, developing and enforcing data security & access control policies, supporting application data integration design and build efforts, conducting code reviews, and more. The required skills and experiences include a Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience, 6-8 years of data modeling, data pipelines, data lake, data warehouse experience, 6+ years programming experience in Python, 6+ years’ experience working within the AWS Big Data/Hadoop Ecosystem, and more. The annual salary range is $140,000 - $180,000.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or related field, or relevant work experience
• 6-8 years of data modeling, data pipelines, data lake, data warehouse experience
• 6+ years programming experience in Python (will also consider Java, Kotlin, C, C++)
• 6+ years’ experience working within the AWS Big Data/Hadoop Ecosystem (EMR, Glue and Athena)

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain Varo’s data pipelines to process data into and out of Varo’s Data Lake
• Work with AWS big data technologies including EMR, Glue, S3, EKS, Lambda, Athena, RDS
• Develop and maintain the data strategy for Varo in terms of capabilities and control mechanisms that support company responsibilities as a regulated national bank
• Provide technical leadership in the area of data systems development including data ingestion, data curation, data storage, high-throughput data processing and analytics
• Work with business partners on requirements, clarification and results
• Participate in developing and enforcing data security & access control policies
• Develop effective controls for a resilient data ingestion process
• Support application data integration design and build efforts, including real-time capabilities
• Conduct code reviews in accordance with team processes and standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with other AWS components like Cloudwatch, EKS, KMS, Lambdas, S3 is a strong plus
• Experience with downstream consumption patterns (reports, dashboards) is a plus
• Experience in Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Presto, REST/SOAP API, Spark2, Airflow is a plus

Benefits

$140,000 - $180,000 a year