About us:
Avara builds innovative products leveraging blockchain technologies. Avara's suite includes the Aave Protocol, along with the native stablecoin GHO, Lens, an open social network, and Family, a design-first mobile crypto wallet. Avara's vision is to build a people-powered internet that benefits all.
Our culture:
Having cultivated a thriving, collaborative culture, our team is kind, welcoming and passionate about what we are building. We celebrate differences and seek to develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool from all over the world. No matter where you are based, no ghost will be left behind and we appreciate every moment we get to work and have fun together.
About the Role:
As a Principal Engineer at Avara, you will lead the design and implementation of regulated payments infrastructure. Your expertise will enable seamless money movement and high-conversion payment acceptance across Avara’s products and partner ecosystem. Together, we will build bridges, remove toll booths, and increase financial access for billions of people.
Avara builds innovative products leveraging blockchain technologies. Avara's suite includes the Aave Protocol, along with the native stablecoin GHO, Lens, an open social network, and Family, a design-first mobile crypto wallet. Avara's vision is to build a people-powered internet that benefits all.
How you can make an impact:
Oversee the end-to-end process of designing, implementing, and deploying regulated payments infrastructure
Ask questions, uncover edge cases, and tend to our documentation
Go fast, be agile, but also know when to slow down. As a regulated payments business, we need to take some decisions slowly in order to design for zero-defects and massive scale
Obsess over transaction processing speed and clear communication with Customers. This is how we build trust.
Maintain short feedback cycles through communicating priorities, failing forward, and learn as a team
Let's connect if:
Minimum of 3 years in a Staff or Principal Engineering role, with a strong preference for experience in Fintech and Payments
Advanced proficiency in TypeScript, Postgres, GraphQL, Restful and distributed backend system design
Solid grasp of transaction processing and ledgering and asynchronous risk monitoring
Experience building mission critical, API-first, services in a production environment for enterprise-scale customers
Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
Driven by the opportunity to make decentralized finance the backbone of fintech and to contribute meaningfully to its practical application in the real world