The Banking Engineering Team at Varo Bank is small but is rapidly growing. The Banking engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining engineering solutions that power Varo’s core banking 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

• Define scope, design, build, and evolve business-critical and customer-facing banking products. Execution speed and timeliness are critical to achieve our business goals
• Help support your system in production and investigate and fix bugs throughout our entire stack. You are expected to push code to production
• Collaborate with other engineering teams and leaders in product management, data science, and design to execute effectively on business goals. Approach each project with a product and customer-first mindset to provide them with seamless experiences
• Define your team roadmap and vision following the company and department goals
• Mentor and coach your team to help them grow, and hire new exceptional talent when needed
• Shape the culture of your team to foster innovation, ownership, accountability, urgency, and a customer-first mindset
• Be at the service of your team and be a problem solver to help them move faster and achieve bigger goals

• 8 years of industry experience in software development leading large and strategic high-impact areas in business
• 2 years of experience directly managing a team of engineers
• Technical leadership and ownership in bringing multiple engineering functions to production
• Production experience with scalable, and distributed systems
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and autonomy
• Ability to work with a wide breadth of stakeholders/partners through product management, data science, design, security, etc
• Experience in hiring, coaching, and retaining strong engineering talent

• Java, Kotlin
• Spring, Spring Boot, and Hibernate
• AWS - EKS, S3, SNS, SQS, KMS, DynamoDB
• PostgreSQL, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Istio
• Gradle, Git, Gitlab
• Jira, Confluence

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