[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Empower finance
Mar 17, 2025 - Empower finance is hiring a remote Staff Software Engineer. 💸 Salary: competitive salary and equity package. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
As a Staff Backend Engineer, 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.
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. Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum of 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.
- 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.
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 optimizing RDMS queries.
- Working experience within the asynchronous programming model.
- General knowledge of Messaging Queues eg. AMQP.
- General knowledge of PaaS environments eg. Azure.
Requirements
- At Empower, we hire for people that push themselves to understand others and seek out ways to challenge their personal assumptions.
- 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!
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Generous equity package
- Full healthcare benefits
- Technology expense reimbursement
- Virtual first environment
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Salary
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competitive salary and equity package
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Remote
Location
USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 17, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
