Principal Backend Engineer

Principal Backend Engineer

US REMOTE 

TECHNOLOGY – BACK-END ENGINEERING 

FULL-TIME

REMOTE

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.

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 of disrupting the banking industry and building products that help improve the financial well-being 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, product and data teams to help design, build, and evolve the next-generation lending platform for a bank for all of us
• Lead large-scale projects from ideation to creation with a customer-first mindset
• Design and build scalable distributed solutions that our customers can build their lives around
• Identify areas of opportunity and innovation and take these projects to the finish line
• Mentor engineers and help build a tech culture that makes magical products
• Define technical strategy with a drive to improve products, infrastructure, processes, or organizations
• 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
• Technical leadership and ownership in bringing multiple engineering functions to production
• Experience with scalable, distributed systems with a test-first approach
• Versed in DevOps best practices
• 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

We recognize not everyone will have all of these requirements. If you meet most of the criteria above and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you!