Sr Engineer Software

Grow your career with a growing organization

Whether they’re helping people reach their long-term financial goals or providing personal wealth management strategies, every associate contributes to changing the lives of those we serve for the better. When it comes to job satisfaction, that’s hard to beat. And from a personal satisfaction perspective, you’ll enjoy the freedom to support causes that matter to you and experience a truly inclusive work environment. Your future starts now.

As a Senior Java/AWS Engineer you will help create products that truly add value to our users. Empower’s server team is extremely agile and you will have the chance to be an influencing member of this team. You will need to wear multiple hats, work with many unknowns, and tackle many large-scale problems.

What you will do

• As a server side engineer you will work on many initiatives, integrations, innovations, while always trying to scale it more, improve performance and keep the system secure.
• Design, implement, deploy and support new web-based applications and web services using server technologies stacks that include Java, MySQL and AWS services.
• Define and implement REST/gRPC Web Services for exposing personal financial services for managing financial accounts, payments, investment portfolios, credit products
• Execute end-to-end software development and deployment in an agile environment  that greatly values CI/CD.
• Define and develop cloud-native distributed systems and container orchestration platforms using micro service and serverless architectures. 
• You will have to independently execute on deliverables

What you will bring

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree or higher, in Computer Science or related field
• Expertise with standard server-side software technologies, including:  Java, MySQL, Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• Experience with REST/gRPC and API design preferred
• Experience with AWS Cloud Computing infrastructure and APIs is a big plus.
• Solid practitioner’s understanding of secure application development best practices, such as OWASP
• Deployment of scalable web systems with architectural requirements for high availability, high throughput, low response time, etc.
• Experience in Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD) with appropriate use of design patterns.
• Desire to grow professionally with a small, focused, development team in a fast-paced team.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills. 

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.