Senior Web Frontend Engineer - Remote

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Empower is shaking up an outdated financial system by providing real opportunity for our customers: the opportunity to get the cash they need, to access fair credit, and to change their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
Work from anywhere
JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Web Frontend Software Engineer, this is a new critical role for us as we look to add new features which are aimed at expanding our fast growing user base. Your role extends to leveraging your technical expertise in front-end application development to create and maintain applications that cater to both external users and internal needs. In this process, you will continuously strive to develop innovative techniques for enhancing performance and interactivity. You will have end to end ownership of our front-end applications that are not only robust and secure but also easily comprehensible, ensuring that our users and fellow engineering peers
Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year.
Key Responsibilities

• Build smooth, stable, and secure web-based applications with React and TypeScript.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to rapidly iterate on customer facing and internal facing web-based applications, products, and tools.
• 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.
• Leverage your technical expertise in front-end application development in the creation and maintenance of both external and internal facing applications, and develop new techniques for improving performance and interactivity.
• Build robust, secure and easy to understand front-end applications both for our users and your engineering peers.

Candidate Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or greater within Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject
• 3+ years of professional Software Development experience
• Proficiency in JavaScript, including standard ES5+, Typescript, native DOM APIs, and ideally at React
• Experience working with design to build custom pages and components, or able to independently follow existing conventions to iterate on required components to achieve usability requirements
• Willing to dig into any part of code across different product lines

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!