Principal Software Engineer

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.

What you'll be doing

• Partner with the engineering and product teams 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 in financial technology platform
• Lead large-scale projects from ideation to creation with a customer-first mindset
• Identify areas of opportunity and innovation and take these projects across the finish line
• Define technical strategy with a drive to improve products, infrastructure, processes, or organizations
• Mentor engineers and work cross-functionally with various engineering and product teams

You'll bring the following required skills and experiences

• 15+ years of industry experience in software development leading large and strategic high-impact areas in business, ideally in banking or fintech
• 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, devops and front end/mobile technologies
• Deep understanding of software security practices

Technologies we use

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

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