Description:

The Staff Software Engineer, Fraud (Backend) position at Varo Bank involves designing and building scalable distributed solutions for customers and employees.
The role includes evolving core banking platform systems to support the latest financial services.
Responsibilities also entail leading large-scale projects with a customer-first mindset and mentoring engineers to build a tech culture that creates innovative products.
The position involves influencing technical strategy to enhance products, infrastructure, processes, or organizations.
Collaboration with various engineering, product, and operations teams is a key aspect of the role.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate should have 10+ years of industry experience in software development, leading large and strategic high-impact areas in business.
Demonstrated technical leadership and ownership in bringing multiple engineering functions to production is required.
Experience with scalable, distributed systems using a test-first approach is essential.
Deep understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures is necessary.
Proficiency in strong consistency in a distributed environment, transactional databases, and caching systems is a must.
A thorough understanding of software security practices is also a requirement.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $180,000 - $200,000 per year, based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies.
Varo Bank provides a fast-paced environment, modern technology stacks, and a diverse workplace.
Employees have the opportunity to improve the financial lives of others through innovative products and solutions.