\nVaro is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us.\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll be doing\n* Partner with the engineering team to help design, build, and evolve the core banking/lending infrastructure for a bank for all of us\n* Design and build scalable distributed solutions that our customers can build their lives around\n* Work with product managers to understand business requirements to build the next-generation banking/lending platform\n* Lead large-scale projects from ideation to creation with a customer-first mindset\n* Identify areas of opportunity and innovation and take these projects to the finish line\n* Define technical strategy with a drive to improve products, infrastructure, processes, or organizations\n* Mentor engineers and work cross-functionally with various engineering and product teams\n\n\n\nYou bring the following required skills and experiences\n* 15+ years of industry experience in software development leading large and strategic high-impact areas in business \n* Technical leadership and ownership in bringing multiple engineering functions to production\n* Experience with scalable, distributed systems with a test-first approach\n* Deep understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures\n* Experience in strong consistency in a distributed environment, transactional databases, and caching systems\n* Deep understanding of software security practices\n\n\n\nTechnologies we use\n* Java, Kotlin\n* Spring, Spring Boot, and Hibernate\n* AWS - EKS, S3, SNS, SQS, KMS\n* PostgreSQL, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Istio\n* Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, Git\n* Jira, Confluence\n\n\n\n\n$220,000 - $280,000 a yearFor 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 - $280,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors as well as candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the identified range.\n\nWe recognize not everyone will have all of these requirements. If you meet most of the criteria above and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you!\n\n\nAbout Varo\nVaro launched in 2017 with the vision to bring the best of fintech into the regulated banking system. We’re a new kind of bank – all-digital, mission-driven, FDIC-insured, and designed around the modern American consumer. \n\n\nAs the first consumer fintech to be granted a national bank charter in 2020, we make financial inclusion and opportunity for all a reality by empowering everyone with the products, insights, and support they need to get ahead. Through our core product offerings and suite of customer-first features, we aim to address a broad range of consumer needs while profitably serving underserved communities that have been historically excluded from the traditional financial system.\n\n\nWe are growing quickly in our hub locations of San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Charlotte along with colleagues located across the country. We have been recognized among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Fintech 50, and earned the No. 7 spot on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies across the country.\n\n\nVaro. A bank for all of us.\n\n\nOur Core Values\n- Customers First\n- Take Ownership\n- Respect\n- Stay Curious\n- Make it Better\n\n\nLearn more about Varo by following us:\nFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/varomoney\nInstagram - www.instagram.com/varobank\nLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/varobank\nTwitter - https://twitter.com/varobank\nEngineering Blog - https://medium.com/engineering-varo\nSoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/varobank\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVaro is an equal opportunity employer. Varo embraces diversity and we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.\n\n\nBeware of fraudulent job postings!\nVaro will never ask for payment to process documents, refer you to a third party to process applications or visas, or ask you to pay costs. Never send money to anyone suggesting they can provide work with Varo.  If you suspect you have received a phony offer, please e-mail [email protected] with the pertinent information and contact information. \n\n\nCCPA Notice at Collection for California Employees and Applicants: \nhttps://varomoney.box.com/s/q7eockvma9nd2b0utwryruh4ze6gf8eg \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Finance and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $85,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\n \n\nPosition overview:\n\nWe’re looking for a Technical Lead to join our engineering function. At Xapo, we are building truly cross-functional teams with full ownership of design, architecture, building, testing, delivery, data, and operations. \n\nYou will lead and collaborate closely with fellow team members from the product, apps, design, and QA communities of practice.  You will be part of the Technical Leadership team in charge of all the technical aspects of Xapo Bank products.\n\nAs a Technical Lead you will provide guidance and coaching around technical good practices and play an active, key role in the Development Community of practice.\n \n\nOur main tech stack includes:\n\n\n* AWS for all of our Infrastructure\n\n* Docker\n\n* Python (Django, Flask)\n\n* MySQL\n\n* MongoDB\n\n* Redis\n\n\n\n\nWe use also:\n\n\n* Cassandra\n\n* PostgreSQL\n\n* Node.js\n\n* Java\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Support, coach, and develop team members into top-performing engineers, both on hard and soft skills.\n\n* Working closely in cross-functional teams where everyone is responsible for the outcome.\n\n* Build a great place to work for talented and motivated people\n\n* Designing, developing, and deploying backend services focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, low latency, and security. \n\n* Take full end-to-end responsibility for the services your team owns, from development to production, operations, and data.\n\n* Support other departments and scale non-technical teams through technical augmentation.\n\n* Develop innovative solutions with Bitcoin at its core.\n\n\n\n\nSkills needed:\n\n\n* Significant software engineering experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages (we use Python)\n\n* Excellent teamwork and communication skills, comfortable preparing high-quality documentation and designs to aid understanding and knowledge sharing. \n\n* Understanding the microservices architecture, container-based 12-factor apps, and cloud-native patterns around fault tolerance.\n\n* Track record of using Event Storming and Domain Driven Design, delivering highly scalable asynchronous software.\n\n* Experience building contract-first services and adopting patterns and frameworks to enable appropriate automated testing at the unit, contract, service, and end-to-end levels. \n\n* Experience building services that can be deployed on demand, quickly, and with quality.\n\n* Excellent understanding of CI/CD patterns and good practice. \n\n* Understand the role of high-quality observability in building highly scalable and performant software.\n\n* Experience working with a public or private cloud vendor \n\n\n\n\nSkills that are nice to have:\n\n\n* Experience working in the Fintech industry.\n\n* Experience of working in teams responsible for Conversion, Activation, and Onboarding.\n\n\n\n\nOther requirements\n\n\n* A dedicated workspace.\n\n* A reliable internet connection with the fastest speed possible in your area.\n\n* Devices and other essential equipment that meet minimal technical specifications.\n\n* Alignment with Our Values and the Xapo Values-Driven Leadership principles.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Testing, Finance, Cloud and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $92,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nGibraltar, Gibraltar