Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Team
US Remote / Charlotte, NC / Salt Lake City, UT / San Francisco, CA
Technology – Information Technology /
Full-time /
Remote
The Developer Productivity Team at Varo Bank is small but is growing rapidly. The team is responsible for building and maintaining tooling solutions that power Varo’s engineering teams 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 DevProd team we value personal growth, initiative and ownership, innovation, collaboration, and the importance of thinking like an engineer while supporting our engineering teams.
What you'll be doing
- Partner with the engineering team to help design, build and evolve the toolset engineers use to develop and maintain banking products
- Work projects from ideation to creation with a customer-first mindset
- Participate in code reviews to main code quality and distribute knowledge
- Work on projects from ideation to delivery
- Research industry best practices and share that knowledge with engineering teams
- Be involved in the technical strategy and with a drive to improve products, infrastructure, processes, or organizations
- Write well-designed, well-tested, readable and maintainable code
You'll bring the following required skills and experiences
- 7+ 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
- Deep understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures
- Experience in strong consistency in a distributed environment, transactional databases, and caching systems
- Deep understanding of software security practices
- Experience with testing methodologies including contract testing and testing in vendor environments
Technologies we use
- Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot
- AWS - EKS, S3, SNS, SQS, KMS
- PostgreSQL, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Istio
- Gitlab, Grafana, Loki
$180,000 - $200,000 a year
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 $180,000 - $200,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors as well as candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the identified range.
