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 Quality Engineering Team

Varo’s quality engineering team is small but is huge in terms of vision, efficiency, and impact. We’re accountable to be a trusted quality partner to deliver the products with highest business value quickly, predictably & consistently. Our team specializes in functional, automation, load and performance testing at a large scale for highly performant mobile and web applications and backend services and their release management.

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 this role

The Director of Quality Engineering reports directly to the CTO and this position is a hands-on influential leader who can manage diverse, smart, and driven engineers to rapidly deliver high-quality products while balancing people's challenges with business requirements and priorities. The role contributes to the success at Varo by defining and driving the tools and automation-driven testing landscape for our evolving platform and applications, as it relates to the delivery of our applications & services.

What you'll do

• Promote continuous development and improvement within your team and broader engineering organization
• Coach and mentor your team members, direct reports and peers to be the best they can be while attracting and hiring key talent to uplevel the organization
• Manage release management activities for development, testing, on-time deployment, and ongoing support of high-quality software products and features with focus on engineering efficiency & CustomerFirst mindset.
• You’ll use your technical expertise to identify and manage risks, make sound judgments about quality, and stop or accelerate production at the right time.
• Own Performance Engineering and drive reliability and performance of services from Mobile Apps, client orchestration layers, Backend services and third party integrations
• Ensure your teams are able to effectively deliver on short term goals while enabling the engineering organization to raise the bar on quality and agility
• Develop a strong working relationship with your team and stakeholders
• Work with engineering and product leaders to define and execute a long term quality strategy
• Be a catalyst to promote 'Quality First' mindset throughout the cross-functional organization
• Exercise sound judgment, discretion, and timeliness in decision making
• Enable effective decision making and risk/return tradeoffs using quantitative and qualitative quality metrics

Required skills, experiences, and traits

• An accomplished thought leader in rapidly delivering the highest quality products and services to your customers while balancing business priorities and resource constraints
• An accomplished technologist passionate about System Design and Architecture and has a breadth of knowledge across the technology landscape and depth in automation and test strategies.
• Demonstrated experience Leading test automation development, using frameworks and tools like Junit, TestNG, Appium including web UI automation tools like Selenium RC/WebDriver, as well as REST/gRPC protocols
• Demonstrated experience in leading performance engineering with the ability to architect solutions to evaluate and improve performance and scalability of Cloud Native platforms and applications using performance test tools such as Gatling, JMeter, or Loadrunner etc. 
• Sound knowledge of performance testing working with databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, PostGreSQL, and MongoDB
• Good understanding of both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modeling of system behavior under load
• Ability in finding the right balance between the velocity/agility of CI/CD and sound judgment of quality/predictability of the outcomes to manage the Release Management of the application and services.
• Extensive experience being a coach to a team, well versed in hiring and building a high performing team
• A seasoned collaborator, extremely effective at cross-functional collaboration i.e. bringing Product, Design, and Engineering leaders together, apt in decision making & project management
• Ability to understand code in various programming languages like Java, Kotlin, Python, Javascript (Frameworks like React.JS) to automate tests for the full solution stack (UI, App Layer, API, microservice, batch jobs, etc.)
• Knowledge of White Box Testing practices using tools like SonarQube, JaCoCO etc.
• Extensive experience using any standard test case management tools & bug management tools like JIRA-SynapseRT or any leading tools.
• Detailed knowledge of software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous deployment, and test suite development and maintenance
• Strong problem-solving skills with analytical capabilities to be able to support theories/solutions
• 5+ years of management experience managing a team of 20+ engineers and Engineering Managers in different geographical locations
• 5+ years of hands-on technical leadership experience in quality & performance engineering practices, test automation, CI/CD, SDLC, etc.
• Has Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience required
• Equivalent industry experience for 15+ years in delivering software test automation practices with various automation tools with different testing methodologies and mentoring SDETs
• Equivalent industry experience for 10+ years as a software engineer building and writing code for various e-commerce and mentoring software engineers




The Three skills that matter most

Nobody can be great at everything, but we’re looking for candidates who are extraordinary at: 

• Setting clear expectations and creating a positive work environment based on accountability and ownership.
• Passionate about System design and Architecture and having a breadth of knowledge across the technology landscape and depth in test automation and strategies on various areas of testing including, but not limited to, Web & Native Apps and microservices along with structured reports outlining project risk and assessment factors.
• A seasoned collaborator, extremely effective at cross-functional collaboration i.e. bringing Product, Design, and Engineering together, apt in decision making & project management

Other nice to haves

• Has a passion for improving user experience and technical efficiency.
• Leads by example, takes everyone along, is hands-on, and has a passion to drive for success.
• Can communicate with transparency and clarity and establish strong partnerships with everyone.
• Has profound expertise in manual and automated test planning and execution. while building modern test frameworks and infrastructure.
• Ready to roll up your sleeves and work through technical challenges with your team.
• Works well under pressure and is able to shift priorities as needed.

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 and board. 

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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