Job Description

Grow your career with a growing organization

Whether they\xe2\x80\x99re helping people reach their long-term financial goals or providing personal wealth management strategies, every associate contributes to changing the lives of those we serve for the better. When it comes to job satisfaction, that\xe2\x80\x99s hard to beat. And from a personal satisfaction perspective, you\xe2\x80\x99ll enjoy the freedom to support causes that matter to you and experience a truly inclusive work environment. Your future starts now.

The Opportunity:

You will work on data that will amaze you, work with a team that will inspire you, and help create products that truly add value to our users. Personal Waelth server team is extremely agile and builds the backbone of our award winning application with cloud native and shift left development philosophy. Our data is rich and large, and this is your chance to be an influential member of this team, not just on Personal Wealth but also on the financial lives of our users. We keep our feet on the ground and heads in the cloud.

The Work:

As a server side engineer you will work on many initiatives, integrations, innovations, while always trying to scale it more, improve performance and keep the system secure.

• Design, implement, deploy and support new web-based applications and container-based microservices using server technologies stacks that include Java, MySQL, Apache/Tomcat, and open-source packages such as Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• Excel in working with data models and transforming them to object oriented models.
• Define and implement REST based web services exposing personal financial services for managing financial accounts, investment portfolios, credit and bank products.

• Execute end-to-end software development in an agile development methodology including: requirements analysis, architecture, design, coding, testing, deployment and support using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Familiarity with financial planning tools and retirement plans is a plus.

Must Have:

• 7+ years of backend development experience
• Expertise with server-side technology stack - Java, MySQL, SpringBoot, Hibernate
• Expertise in Object Oriented Design and effective use of design patterns
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience leading a team of 2-4 and working with geographically distributed teams
• Exceptional sense of ownership with assigned responsibilities
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins
• Experience with triaging and debugging issues with limited information

• Experience with REST and API design
• Experience with defining testing strategies in multi-vendor enterprise application
• Experience with AWS Cloud Computing infrastructure
• Experience with NewSql and NoSql technologies is a plus
• Solid practitioner\xe2\x80\x99s understanding of secure application development best practices, such as OWASP
• Deployment of scalable web systems with architectural requirements for high availability, high throughput, low response time, etc.
• Desire to grow professionally with a small, focused, development team in a fast-paced team
• Comfortable working evening shifts to ensure overlap with US time zones
• Bachelor\'s degree or higher, in Computer Science or related field

COVID

COVID vaccinations are required for all individuals working in any Empower office location or who participate in in-person meetings and/or business activities, subject to state and local laws. Most Empower positions may require on-site presence on an occasional or regular basis and associates will need to provide proof of COVID vaccination, subject to state and local laws. Associates unable to comply with the COVID vaccination requirement due to medical reasons may request an accommodation.

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