Description:

Varo is a digital, mission-driven bank that is FDIC insured and designed for modern customer lifestyles.
The Banking Engineering Team is small but rapidly growing, responsible for engineering solutions that power Varo’s core banking, lending, authentication, risk, offers, and marketplaces.
The Staff Software Engineer (Backend) position focuses on reliability, load, and scale in all engineering efforts.
Candidates will design and build scalable distributed solutions for customers and employees.
The role involves evolving core banking platform systems to support the latest financial services.
Engineers will lead large-scale projects from ideation to creation with a customer-first mindset.
Mentoring engineers and fostering a tech culture that produces exceptional products is a key responsibility.
The position requires influencing technical strategy to improve products, infrastructure, processes, or organizations.
Collaboration with various engineering, product, and operations teams is essential.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 10+ 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 are required.
Experience with scalable, distributed systems and a test-first approach is necessary.
A deep understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures is essential.
Candidates should have experience with strong consistency in a distributed environment, transactional databases, and caching systems.
A deep understanding of software security practices is required.
Experience with testing methodologies, including contract testing and testing in vendor environments, is necessary.

The salary range for this position is $160,000 - $200,000 per year, based on function, level, and geographic location.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the identified range.