Staff iOS Engineer

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Empower is shaking up an outdated financial system by providing real opportunity for our customers: the opportunity to get the cash they need, to access fair credit, and to change their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

JOB DESCRIPTION

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.  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!
Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Candidate Qualifications

• 5+ years developing consumer facing iOS apps

• Experience working in Swift and iOS 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!