EmpowerEM

Sr. Android Engineer - Remote

Our mission is to expand access to fair credit to give anyone the opportunity to improve their financial security and mobility. The drive, fearless thinking, and empathy we bring to our work delivers better outcomes for our community every day.

Empower

Employee count: 51-200

United States only

EMPOWER OVERVIEW

Empower is shaking up an outdated financial system by providing real opportunity for our customers: the opportunity to get the cash they need, to access fair credit, and to change their financial story. Today, we’re helping millions of people find financial security through machine learning models that evaluate creditworthiness using a more inclusive lens and mobile-first products: Cash Advance, Thrive line of credit, and Petal credit cards. Tomorrow? Creating even more financial paths for our customers (and their wallets) to succeed.

This year, Empower ranked #65 on Inc. 5000’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list — our third year in a row cracking the top 100 — and was named by Forbes as one of the 25 Next Billion-Dollar Startups for 2024. Empower was also featured by Forbes on America’s Best Startup Employers list in 2023, and our Thrive line of credit product was named by Fast Company as one of 2022’s Next Big Things in Tech.

Empower is backed by Sequoia Capital, Blisce, and Icon Ventures. Ready to grow your impact and accelerate your career? Take a look at our open roles — we can’t wait to meet you.

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 benefits

Technology expense reimbursement

Virtual first environment

The Opportunity: Sr. Android Engineer

As an Android Software Engineer, you’ll create the Android 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.

How You'll Make an Impact

  • Designing and building Android mobile apps

  • Implementing secure coding standards in accordance with the Empower Secure Development Policy

  • Perform on-going security testing and code review to improve software security

  • Leading and/or supporting feature specification activities (Product Engineering)

  • Minimizing defects and improving reliability through: Development of automated tests, manual test validation, development of fit for purpose architecture and code, contributing to PRs

  • 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

  • Maximising effective development and identifying new technology opportunities by: Keeping across Android development announcements, being across community best practice, discovering and evaluating new technologies

Why You're a Great Fit

  • Bachelor degree or greater within Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject

  • 5+ years developing consumer facing Android apps

  • Working experience in Kotlin and Android UI Frameworks

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!

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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 (currently in beta, launching soon) 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. Inc. ranked Empower #55 in the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. Fast Company recognized Empower Thrive in their 2022 list of the Next Big Things in Tech.

Employee benefits

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Full healthcare benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.

Generous equity package

Every employee gets equity, so you are rewarded for your best work.

Technology expense reimbursement

Since you work remotely, we want to make sure your home office is comfortable.

Work from anywhere

We accommodate all kinds of lifestyles and life stages. Come work on your terms.

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Empower

Company size

51-200 employees

Founded in

2016

Chief executive officer

Warren Hogarth

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