API Engineer

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Varo 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.

ABOUT THE ENGINEERING TEAM
The Engineering Team at Varo is small but is growing rapidly. Our goal is to repair the stale banking industry and build products that help improve the financial wellbeing of our customers. You will get to work with new technology stacks, solve difficult problems, 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, collaboration, and the importance of thinking like an engineer.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Build new and modern GraphQL APIs for Web clients that will be used by Varo’s Operations Teams for serving millions of Varo customers and servicing their financial needs.
  • Partner with front end, backend engineers and product owners to define the client interfaces
  • Implement best API practices on our team
  • Write well-designed, well-tested, readable, maintainable code; participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge
  • Help lead small, medium and large projects from idea to positive execution
  • PREVIOUS SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES THAT'LL HELP YOU BE GREAT

  • 2+ years experience in building GraphQL and/or REST APIs using Node.js or other similar languages.
  • Strong knowledge of and experience with modern JavaScript
  • Experience and understanding of Domain Driven Design in a professional environment
  • Experience with and understanding of best practices when it comes to what constitutes a production ready microservices
  • Experience in event driven architecture, pub/sub
  • Experience with performance tuning production architecture
  • OTHER NICE TO HAVES

  • Experience with financial systems (banking, lending, payments).
  • You love making complicated things, very simple.
  • You can collaborate across teams in our rapidly growing company.
  • You have a can-do attitude and manage/juggle multiple tasks.
  • TECHNOLOGIES WE USE

  • Node.js, GraphQL/Apollo, Express
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, gRPC
  • Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Git, Jira, Confluence
  • About Varo
    We're on a mission to bring financial inclusion and opportunity to all hard-working Americans. Through our mobile app, we offer premium bank accounts that have no minimum balance requirement or monthly account fees, high-interest savings accounts, short-term lending, and solutions to help customers stretch their paycheck, build credit and start saving. Our tech-first products are designed to make money work for everyone and help customers and communities build greater financial resiliency.

    Varo is distinct from other fintechs: we've made history as the first and only consumer fintech to be granted a full national bank charter by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

    Varo Bank represents the evolution of a new generation of banks that are born from innovation and built on technology to empower consumers and businesses.

    Our team combines the best of both consumer tech and banking, and we’re wildly passionate about helping our customers. Our teams are based in San Francisco and Salt Lake City. Privately held, we’ve raised over $482M to date, from leading institutional investors and strategic partners including Warburg Pincus, The Rise Fund, Gallatin Point Capital, Harbourvest Partners, Progressive Insurance, and Russell Westbrook Enterprises.

    Varo is entrepreneurial, collaborative, enthusiastic, customer-oriented, fast-paced, and multicultural.  This is an open and relatively flat organization that puts an emphasis on collaboration, sharing ideas and information. For a relatively early-stage company, Varo is grounded in a strong set of values and takes pride in the diversity of its employees. 

    Varo. A bank for all of us.

    Our Core Values
    - Customers First
    - Take Ownership
    - Respect
    - Stay Curious
    - Make it Better


    Varo 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.

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