Principal Performance 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 QUALITY ENGINEERING TEAM
Varo’s Quality and Performance Engineering Team is still small but is huge in terms of vision, efficiency, and impact. We’re accountable to be a trusted quality partner to deliver  scalable products with highest business value quickly, predictably, and consistently.

The Engineering Team at Varo is focused on achieving monumental goals. In our pursuit of becoming the first mobile-centric national bank in the country, so if you are looking for growth join us. 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, 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.

ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL PERFORMANCE ENGINEER ROLE
We’re looking for a seasoned and self driven Performance Engineer who will play a very important role in our products' success. 
- You will partner with Chief Architect and service owners to understand and encapsulate the use cases into industry standard benchmarks. 
- You will work with product management and interface directly with business users  to get direct exposure to the usage patterns we strive to satisfy. 
- You will also drive projects to integrate benchmarking into our continuous integration and test automation frameworks.
- You will take ownership of Performance Engineering and drive reliability and performance of services from client, orchestration layers to backend microservices with third party integrations.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Design and implement solutions to evaluate and improve performance and scalability of Cloud Native platforms and applications.
  • Architect solutions for microservices to do self service performance and scalability evaluation
  • Root cause performance and scalability issues and contribute to product code to alleviate these issues
  • Optimize sizing of deployed component instances for cost optimization
  • Develop performance and scale test plans based on deep understanding of domain, architecture and product tech stack
  • Develop through documentation around performance test plans , automated test reporting and system bottlenecks.
  • Responsible for designing and implementing relevant simulators to ingest large scale dataDesign, implement and maintain test frameworks
  • Support extended teams in troubleshooting problems, such as system malfunctionsProvide feedback, propose solutions and suggest improvements in the product
  • You will partner with other performance engineer and developers to develop best practices, author blogs and white papers, and present internally, at conferences, and directly to business owners, product owners

    • SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES THAT'LL HELP YOU BE GREAT

  • 12 +years of proven experience in software engineering, focusing on performance, scale
  • 2 +years of experience with systems engineering and software development
  • 2 + years of experience leading and mentoring scale/performance engineers
  • Strong analytical and programming skills (Scala and/or Java preferred)
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
  • Excellent communication with ability to lead discussions
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills and great attention to detail and supporting an enterprise-level environment
  • Strong understanding of OS fundamentals (Mac/ Linux/ Windows) and proven expertise in solving OS level performance issues
  • Understanding of cloud-scale and micro-services architecture
  • Good understanding of in both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modeling of system behavior under load
  • Ability to find root cause of performance bottlenecks with open source profiling tools

    • THE THREE SKILLS THAT MATTER MOST
    Nobody can be great at everything, but we're looking for candidates who are extraordinary at:
  • Passionate to optimize the performance bottlenecks and improve the product with experience in tackling problems of load, scale, and optimizations of sophisticated deployments
  • Expert in scripting languages and compiled languages (Java/Scala)Expert in distributed computing system and stack. Comfortable with Linux, Docker, AWS, GIT, Artifactory in terms of both tools and systems administration
  • Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and thought-leadership

    • OTHER NICE TO HAVES

  • Extended QualificationsExperience with enterprise software capacity planning a big plus
  • Excellent Kubernetes diagnostic experience a plus Experience with AWS, open source tools such as Kafka, Terraform, Elasticsearch 
  • Experience managing multiple projects, in a fast-paced, high volume environment
    • We 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.

    About Varo
    Varo 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. 

    As 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.

    We 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.

    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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