ABOUT VARO

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission driven, FDIC insured, and designed for the way our customers live their lives.

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 and board. 

Varo. A bank for all of us.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Varo is seeking a Data Engineer to support the Data Enablement team. As the Data Management and Integration Engineer, you will play a key role in implementing solutions to manage all organization-wide data governance activities and be responsible for improving the quality and managing the protection of sensitive data and information assets. You will use state of the art cloud technologies and best of breed third party tools to develop data lineage and data quality monitoring applications. You will focus on establishing and ensuring adherence to data policies, standards and practices in both Business and Functional areas, and to achieve the required level of consistency, quality and protection to meet overall business needs.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Work closely with Varo’s Data Enablement team to develop a data governance framework using leading AI driven Data Quality, MDM and lineage tools.
• Work closely with the Data Governance and Data Technology teams to integrate Varo’s data governance tooling with Varo’s data processing pipelines.
• Be responsible for development and maintenance of data governance tooling and processes that will span Varo’s platform and service all operational banking functions.
• Work closely with the Varo Data Lake team to design, build and maintain data pipelines into and out of Varo’s Data Lake using AWS Glue, Athena, S3 and Python.
• Provide technical capabilities in the area of data systems development including data ingestion, data curation, data storage, high-throughput data processing, analytics.
• Participate in developing and enforcing data security & access control policies and implementing effective controls for a resilient data ingestion process.
• Conduct code reviews in accordance with team processes and standards.

PREVIOUS SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES THAT'LL HELP YOU BE GREAT

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or related field, or relevant work experience.
• 2+ years coding experience in Python, Java or other object-oriented languages.
• 2+ years’ experience working within the Hadoop/Spark2 ecosystem.
• 2+ years of ETL, data modeling, warehouse and data pipelines experience.
• Knowledge of data governance concepts how Data Governance relates to Data Quality Management, metadata management, and MDM.
• Experience in data integration platforms, application integration/messaging platforms.
• Experience with downstream consumption patterns is a plus (reports, dashboards, API).
• AWS Glue, S3, RDS, REST/SOAP API, Kafka and Airflow are a plus.
• A passion for banking and finance.
• Previous experience with data quality management and data lineage tools is a plus.

CULTURAL ALIGNMENT

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. 

OUR CORE VALUES

Customers First: Understand the problems our customers are trying to solve. Respond with a sense of urgency. Build relationships that result in loyalty. Be data and insights-driven. Test everything. Achieve results through strong execution. Build a product people love. Assess new initiatives with the customers’ interest in mind. Act with empathy. 

Take Ownership: Bias towards action. Have high standards. Be accountable for the results of your work, our product, our company. Trust others to own it.

Respect: Treat others how you want to be treated. Listen first before being heard. Speak the truth even when it's not easy. Assume best intentions. Bring your full self to work.

Stay Curious: Ask why. Dare to make things better. Learn something new each day (even from mistakes). Be open to growth. Develop creative solutions.

Make it Better: Think big. Set high goals. Work towards long term value rather than short term wins. Create change. Be resilient.

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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Engineering Blog - https://medium.com/engineering-varo

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.