Staff iOS Engineer, Empower Finance
+ Equity
Credit health & financial management app
Posted today
Credit health & financial management app
101-200 employees
Posted today
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To expand access to fair credit to give anyone in the world the opportunity to improve their financial security and mobility.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re excited about tackling meaningful challenges, shaping product strategy, and delivering innovative solutions in a hands-on setting, we’d love to meet you!
- 5+ years developing consumer facing iOS apps
- Experience working in Swift and iOS UI Frameworks
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an iOS Engineer to join our close-knit team and play a key role in the development of our Thrive product
- This is a unique opportunity to help us rethink how Thrive provides access to credit for millions of underserved users
- As a key member of a small, fast-paced team, you'll have the opportunity to take ownership of critical features, pitch experiments, and design features that directly impact our users
- Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year
- Collaborate with product managers, backend engineers, and other team members to define, design and ship new features that create customer and business value
- Analyze user feedback, app analytics, and performance metrics to help prioritize features or improvements
- Participate in code reviews to ensure quality, performance, and maintainability
- Minimizing defects and improving reliability through: Development of automated tests, manual test validation, development of fit for purpose architecture and code, contributing to PRs
- Improve and maintain our iOS build and release process
- Adopt and evangelize the use of AI tooling to improve the speed and efficiency of software development
- Continuously learn and adopt new iOS technologies, frameworks, and tools (e.g., SwiftUI, Combine, Core Data)
- Drive technical excellence across teams by establishing architectural patterns and best practices that scale with our growing user base
- Shape and evangelise the technical vision for our iOS platform while mentoring engineers to level up their technical capabilities
- Partner with engineering leadership to identify and resolve technical debt, while balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health
Our take
An individual’s credit score greatly influences their life, affecting their ability to rent, receive loans, buy a house, and access affordable interest rates. But you have to have credit to build credit, leaving a lot of people in a catch-22 situation. Empower is a mobile-only app that makes credit more inclusive and accessible, helping customers achieve their credit health goals regardless of their credit history (or lack thereof).
Though other FinTech companies such as Mint or Personal Capital also offer impressive financial tracking for their customers, Empower’s comprehensive set of personal finance features including cash advance and automatic savings offerings make it a better choice for people who want to use a single app to manage their finances.
By empowering people to take control of their money through its range of financial services, Empower is working to break the cycle of paycheck-to-paycheck living. Backed by Blisce, Defy Ventures and Quiet Capital, the company has been significantly growing its revenue in recent years and was recognized in the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in the US.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
45% employee growth in 12 months
Trustpilot (1.9)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$75m
LATE VC
Mar 2020
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $99.5m
Company benefits
- Generous equity package
- Full healthcare benefits
- Unlimited personal vacation
- Technology expense reimbursement
- Work from anywhere
Company values
- 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 and rewarding experience for our community
- Inclusive Collaboration - We believe diverse teams make the best decisions — and strive to give diverse voices a seat at the table
- No Jerks Allows - We value our relationships and take the time to build trust and connection and communicate respectfully
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Warren Hogarth
(CEO)Previous Partner at Sequoia Capital and is an Early Investor/Company Builder for multiple companies.
Justin Ammerlaan
(CTO)Founder of Ammerlaan Initiatives and Co-Founder of White Room Trading. Previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at SDM and a Technical Architect at Fujitsu.
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