Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.

Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself.

We are looking for a very curious Java Engineer. You need to be a thinker and a doer. You need to be smart and build smart products. You need to be ambitious. This will be your finest work and creation, and an amazing engineering team is there to collaborate with you and support you.

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 web services using server technologies stacks that include Java, MySQL and AWS services.
• Define and implement REST Web Services for exposing personal financial services for managing financial accounts, payments, investment portfolios, credit products
• Execute end-to-end software development and deployment in an agile environment  that greatly values CI/CD.
• Define and develop cloud-native distributed systems and container orchestration platforms using micro service and serverless architectures.
• Assist with peer code evaluations  

Desired Skills and Experience:

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Desire to grow professionally with a small, focused, development team in a fast-paced team.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
• Experience with standard server-side software technologies, including Java, MySQL, Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• Experience with REST and API design
• Experience in Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD) with appropriate use of design patterns.
• Bachelor's degree or higher, in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with AWS Cloud Computing infrastructure and APIs is a big plus.
• Experience with Git, Java, Maven, and or Hudson/Jenkins are a plus.

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.