Principal Engineer

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.

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

Haven’t quite met all the criteria? Let’s not miss out on the chance to speak. Whilst you might not meet every single requirement, you might bring other, more exciting skills to the companies!

Equal opportunity statement:

Avara celebrates diversity and view each and every team member as a separate individual with their own unique identity. No matter your race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, 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.