Senior iOS Software Engineer at Empower
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.
Candidate Qualifications
- Bachelor degree or greater within Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject
- 5+ years developing consumer facing iOS apps
- Working experience in Swift and iOS UI Frameworks
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 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
- No 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 an iOS Software Engineer, you’ll create the iOS mobile app that powers the Empower customer experience. 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.
Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year.
Key Responsibilities
- Designing and building iOS mobile apps
- Contribution and adherence to software engineering standards and practices
- Implementing secure coding standards in accordance with the Empower Secure Development Policy
- Perform on-going security testing and code review to improve software security
- Meeting sprint goals
- Leading and/or supporting feature specification activities (Product Engineering)
- Monitoring the performance of the Empower mobile app and applying corrective action through bug fixing and general improvement.
- Minimizing 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 iOS app build pipeline
- Publishing the App to the App Store
- Collaborating cross-functionally to define, design and ship new features that create customer and business value.
- Playing an active role in advising and collaborating with design and product to flesh out the specifications of each epic.
- Writing engineering specs, including acceptance criteria and server contracts
- Grooming stories for upcoming sprints
- Maximising effective development and identifying new technology opportunities by: Keeping across iOS development announcements, being across community best practice, discovering and evaluating new technologies
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