Staff Software Engineer

EMPOWER OVERVIEW

Empower is a high-growth financial technology company on a mission to expand access to fair credit to give anyone in the world the opportunity to improve their financial security and mobility. We dream up and launch one-of-a-kind features that help our members get money instantly whenever they need it save for the future and rewrite their financial story. Our members see Empower Cash Advance as a life-saver Empower Automatic Savings as a game-changer and the new Empower Thrive line of credit as a lifeline to low-cost borrowing and the only practical path to building good credit.

Empower México is a new venture for the company. We offer small loans ranging from $150 to $2000 MXN to help Mexican customers in a pinch using non-traditional data to underwrite customers.

Empower is backed by Sequoia Capital Blisce and Icon Ventures. Are we the next great place to grow your impact and accelerate your career? We think so:

Inc. ranked Empower #56 in the 2023 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US (#55 in 2022). Forbes put Empower on its 2023 list of America's Best Startup Employers. Fast Company recognized the new Empower Thrive line of credit in their 2022 list of the Next Big Things in Tech.

THE EMPOWER WAY

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 rewarding experience for our community

Inclusive Collaboration : We believe diverse teams make the best decisions and we strive to give diverse voices a seat at the table

N o Jerks Allowed : We value our relationships and take the time to build trust and connection and communicate respectfully

WHAT EMPOWER OFFERS

Competitive salary

Generous equity package

Full healthcare and dental benefits

Technology  expense reimbursement

Work  from anywhere

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Staff Backend Engineer for Empower Mexico  you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our solutions. You will identify strategic technical needs lead large-scale and complex product initiatives and optimize our engineering processes. You will also take ownership of technological initiatives from management and execution to solution design and progress reporting. In addition you will serve as a lead interviewer mentor other engineers and lead incident responses. You will also own technical ORKs for the Mexico business serving as the driving force to achieve them.

Your role will also involve designing building and deploying server application code implementing secure coding standards and meeting sprint goals. You will monitor the performance of our server application participate in the server ops on-call schedule and work towards minimizing defects and improving reliability.

This role has a high impact in creating and owning a full business solution that is reliable available and scalable that meets our customer’s critical loan needs. We are a .NET / Azure stack and are looking for .NET engineers with strong experience with Azure.

Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to foster optimal product direction collaborate closely with business stakeholders to streamline and simplify designs and proactively identify areas of risk and tradeoffs that can be enhanced.

• Interfacing the financial business system into the customer facing Empower México Android app and internal “Back of House” support portal

• Integrating with 3rd party services

• Ownership of technical initiatives being accountable for the initiative's outcome managing and executing the project designing the solution and defining its requirements reporting on the initiative's progress and coordinating resources.

• Perform as a lead technical interviewer

• Lead technical reviewer of Empower Engineering blog posts

• Mentor Engineers up to and including Senior levels

• Lead SEV1 and lower incident response through to resolution

• Lead engineering of  large scale and complex product initiatives

• Culture leader across the engineering organization delivery team and platform team

Candidate Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years ideally 15+ 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

• Working experience with Azure solutions systems like Azure Functions and Azure Blob storage and working knowledge of common .NET libraries like MediatR and Xunit for testing

• General knowledge of Messaging Queues eg. AMQP

• General knowledge of PaaS environments eg. Azure

Preferred Qualifications

• Worked on a “zero to one” project taking a business from an idea to a profitable venture

• Experience scaling a solution from tens of thousands to millions of customers (Scaling databases queues caching monitoring and security with Azure)

• Contributed to and/or owned a large complex critical banking or lending solution

$205000 - $230000 a year

For US based employee's this salary range includes several career levels of consideration and will be discussed further during the interview process. The salary range is based on a variety of factors such as candidate experience qualifications and business needs. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

At Empower we hire for people that push themselves to understand others and seek out ways to challenge their personal assumptions. Our hope is that by fostering such an environment we strengthen our business and relationships by putting people first. We are committed to building a diverse inclusive and equitable workspace where everyone (regardless of age education ethnicity gender sexual orientation or any personal characteristics) feels like they belong. Even if your experience doesn’t exactly match up to our job description you should feel empowered to apply regardless!