Varo Bank is hiring a
Sr. Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

The job is for a Backend Engineer at Varo Bank, a digital, mission-driven bank. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining engineering solutions for various aspects of the bank's operations. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of industry experience in software development, preferably with JAVA, and knowledge of microservices, event-driven programming, APIs, databases, caching, consistency, etc.

Requirements

• 3+ years of industry experience in software development, preferably JAVA
• Understanding of microservices and event-driven programming
• Experience in building public and internal APIs
• Experience in strong consistency in a distributed environment, transactional databases, and caching systems
• Understanding of the software security practices
• Experience with unit and integration testing
• Experience with scalable, distributed systems with a test-first approach

Responsibilities

• Partner with the engineering team to help design, build and evolve the lending infrastructure for a bank for all of us
• Design and build scalable distributed solutions that our customers can build their lives around
• Work cross-functionally with various engineering and product teams to build the next-generation lending platform
• Participate in code reviews to main code quality and distribute knowledge
• Work on large projects from ideation to delivery
• Be involved in the technical strategy and with a drive to improve products, infrastructure, processes, or organizations

Preferred Qualifications

A basic understanding of financial systems (banking, lending, payments) will catch our attention

Benefits

• Work in a great and diverse workplace
• Improve the financial lives of others