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Principal Software Engineer

Varo
Salt Lake, UT Full Time
POSTED ON 1/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/19/2025

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
  • For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all US-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Per applicable law, the salary range for this role is $220,000 - $260,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors as well as candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the identified range.

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