Principal Engineer, Avara
Open source protocol for decentralised lending
Open for applications
Open source protocol for decentralised lending
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reinvent our modern paradigms in the realm of finance, social media networking and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Avara is a software technology company, known for its cutting-edge Web3 products built on blockchain technologies. Avara has crafted the highly resilient Aave Protocol, a decentralised, open-source, and non-custodial liquidity protocol.
One of Avara's distinctive features is its tokenisation of deposits, allowing users to earn interest in real time as their deposits are transformed into tokens. Depositors contribute liquidity to pools, and borrowers can access this liquidity with variable and stable interest rate options. The Avara Protocol's commitment to community governance is further exemplified through initiatives like the Avara Grants DAO, a community-led grants program financing ideas from the Aave Protocol's community.
Avara's influence extends beyond its flagship protocol, as the company has expanded its portfolio to include transformative projects. Notably, Avara has introduced GHO, an algorithmic stablecoin aimed at revolutionising the stablecoin market by ensuring the verifiability of reserves. Additionally, Avara has ventured into decentralised social networking with Lens, while strategic acquisitions of Sonar, a metaverse app, and the Family Crypto wallet underline its dedication to realising a people-powered internet that benefits all.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.2)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$31m
EARLY VC
Oct 2020
$25m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $63.5m
Company benefits
- Work-life balance
- Equity
- Regular team events and off-sites
- Medical coverage and pension
- Generous paid parental leave
- Generous vacation and sick leave
- Work from anywhere
- Paid co-working space/desk
Company values
- Craft: We take pride in craft, talent, attention to detail, mindfulness, resourcefulness, and meaningful steps towards excellence
- Accountability: We take responsibility for our own decisions, actions and results, and we work as one team
- Integrity: We count on each other to be direct, honest, and caring. Our word matters; what we say is what we do
- Sisu: We cultivate inner strength and self-awareness. We persevere in the face of obstacles
- Community: We create products that increase access and engender human connection and community
Company HQ
Notting Hill, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Stani Kulechov
(CEO)Stani graduated from the University of Helsinki with a Master's in Law.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Avara
Muna Gullam (People & Talent Partner )
- Avara celebrates diversity and views each and every team member as a separate individual with their own unique identity. No matter your race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or even the wallet you use, we welcome you at Avara. As an equal opportunities employer, we take accountability and believe in everyone’s potential to build, create and inspire changes. With a mission to build a diverse workforce, we are proud to foster a working environment in which everyone can feel safe and valued for who they are.
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