Backend Software Engineer, Empower Finance
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Credit health & financial management app
Open for applications
Credit health & financial management app
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To expand access to fair credit to give anyone in the world the opportunity to improve their financial security and mobility.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor degree or greater within Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject
- 3+ years developing web APIs within .NET (C#)
- Working experience with ORMs such as Entity Framework
- Working experience constructing and optimising RDMS queries
- Working experience within the asynchronous programming model
What the job involves
- As a Backend Server Software Engineer, you’ll work on the engine that powers the Empower apps and business
- You’ll engage with a collaborative, high powered team to develop solutions and lead product engineering on projects with a reach of millions
- The solutions you’ll build will be robust, secure and easy to understand both for our users and your engineering peers
- You’ll take end to end ownership of new features and product lines shaping work in early stages, building, deploying and running post deployment analysis to ensure we’re hitting our goals
- Designing, building, and deploying server application code that interfaces with 3rd party clients and Empower
- Implementing secure coding standards in accordance with the Empower Secure Development Policy
- Perform on-going security testing and code review to improve software security
- Monitoring the performance of the Empower server application and applying corrective action through bug fixing and improved solutions
- Minimising defects and improving reliability through: Development of automated tests, manual test validation, development of fit for purpose architecture and code, contributing to PRs
- Developing and maintaining the server app build and deployment pipeline
- Collaborating cross-functionally to define, design and ship new features that create customer and business value
- Working with business and operations stakeholders for the definition and development of business requirements
- Contributing to server/client contract API definition
- Architecting solutions that interface into 3rd parties and the Empower mobile client
- Maximising effective development and identifying new technology opportunities by: Keeping across .NET development announcements, being across community best practice, discovering and evaluating new technologies
- Participating in the server ops on call schedule
Our take
An individual’s credit score greatly influences their life, affecting their ability to rent, receive loans, buy a house, and access affordable interest rates. But you have to have credit to build credit, leaving a lot of people in a catch-22 situation. Empower is a mobile-only app that makes credit more inclusive and accessible, helping customers achieve their credit health goals regardless of their credit history (or lack thereof).
Though other FinTech companies such as Mint or Personal Capital also offer impressive financial tracking for their customers, Empower’s comprehensive set of personal finance features including cash advance and automatic savings offerings make it a better choice for people who want to use a single app to manage their finances.
By empowering people to take control of their money through its range of financial services, Empower is working to break the cycle of paycheck-to-paycheck living. Backed by Blisce, Defy Ventures and Quiet Capital, the company has been significantly growing its revenue in recent years and was recognized in the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in the US.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
45% employee growth in 12 months
Trustpilot (1.9)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$75m
LATE VC
Mar 2020
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $99.5m
Company benefits
- Generous equity package
- Full healthcare benefits
- Unlimited personal vacation
- Technology expense reimbursement
- Work from anywhere
Company values
- Great Expectations - We come up with bold, audacious goals for ourselves and go all out for impact
- Owner Mindset - We give every employee latitude to act independently, make smart choices, and move the business forward
- Spirited Debate - We love skeptics and seek counter opinions to challenge our personal assumptions and expand our view
- Customer Obsession - We listen to understand, empathize, and create a memorable and rewarding experience for our community
- Inclusive Collaboration - We believe diverse teams make the best decisions — and strive to give diverse voices a seat at the table
- No Jerks Allows - We value our relationships and take the time to build trust and connection and communicate respectfully
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Warren Hogarth
(CEO)Previous Partner at Sequoia Capital and is an Early Investor/Company Builder for multiple companies.
Justin Ammerlaan
(CTO)Founder of Ammerlaan Initiatives and Co-Founder of White Room Trading. Previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at SDM and a Technical Architect at Fujitsu.
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