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	Empower Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Remote)		0 days ago	Apply
	Description EMPOWER OVERVIEW Empower is shaking up an outdated financial system by providing real opportunity for our customers: the opportunity to get the cash they need, to access fair credit, and to change their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 Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our solutions. You will identify strategic technical needs, lead large-scale and complex product initiatives, and optimize our engineering processes. You will also take ownership of technological initiatives, from management and execution to solution design and progress reporting. In addition, you will serve as a lead interviewer, mentor other engineers, and lead incident responses. Your role will also involve designing, building, and deploying server application code, implementing secure coding standards, and meeting sprint goals. You will monitor the performance of our server application, participate in the server ops on-call schedule, and work towards minimizing defects and improving reliability. Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year. Key Responsibilities Identify opportunities to foster optimal product direction, collaborate closely with business stakeholders to streamline and simplify designs, and proactively identify areas of risk and tradeoffs that can be enhanced. Ownership of technical initiatives, being accountable for the initiative's outcome, managing and executing the project, designing the solution and defining its requirements, reporting on the initiative's progress, and coordinating resources. Perform as a lead technical interviewer Lead technical reviewer of Empower Engineering blog posts Mentor Engineers up to and including Senior levels Lead SEV1 and lower incident response through to resolution Lead engineering of large scale and complex product initiatives Culture leader across the engineering organization, delivery team and platform team Candidate Qualifications Minimum 10 years, ideally 15+ years developing web APIs within .NET (C#) Working experience with ORMs such as Entity Framework Working experience constructing and optimising RDMS queries Working experience within the asynchronous programming model General knowledge of Messaging Queues eg. AMQP General knowledge of PaaS environments eg. Azure 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! 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!
	Empower Software Engineer - Backend (Remote)		0 days ago	Apply
	Description 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 Backend Server Software Engineer, you’ll work on the engine that powers the Empower apps and business. You’ll engage with a collaborative, high powered team to develop solutions and lead product engineering on projects with a reach of millions. The solutions you’ll build will be robust, secure and easy to understand both for our users and your engineering peers. You’ll 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. Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year. Key Responsibilities Designing, building, and deploying server application code that interfaces with 3rd party clients and Empower Implementing secure coding standards in accordance with the Empower Secure Development Policy Perform on-going security testing and code review to improve software security Monitoring the performance of the Empower server application and applying corrective action through bug fixing and improved solutions Minimising defects and improving reliability through: Development of automated tests, manual test validation, development of fit for purpose architecture and code, contributing to PRs Developing and maintaining the server app build and deployment pipeline Collaborating cross-functionally to define, design and ship new features that create customer and business value Working with business and operations stakeholders for the definition and development of business requirements Contributing to server/client contract API definition Architecting solutions that interface into 3rd parties and the Empower mobile client Maximising effective development and identifying new technology opportunities by: Keeping across .NET development announcements, being across community best practice, discovering and evaluating new technologies Participating in the server ops on call schedule Candidate Qualifications Bachelor degree or greater within Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject 3+ years developing web APIs within .NET (C#) Working experience with ORMs such as Entity Framework Working experience constructing and optimising RDMS queries Working experience within the asynchronous programming model 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! 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!
	Empower Backend Engineer Intern		0 days ago	Apply
	Description 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 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!
	Empower Software Engineer - Backend Python		0 days ago	Apply
	Description 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 Python Backend Engineer, you’ll work on the engine that powers the Empower apps and business. You’ll engage with a collaborative, high powered team to develop solutions and lead product engineering on projects with a reach of millions. The solutions you’ll build will be robust, secure and easy to understand both for our users and your engineering peers. You’ll 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. Empower is a remote-first company. We drive connectivity through regular company offsites. Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year. Responsibilities - Write high-quality, well-tested server-side code that run smoothly in production and elevates the standards across the team - Teach across the broader engineering organization to improve best practices and influence system design - Lead complex projects, influence product design and make business vs technology trade-offs during all phases of the project lifecycle, consistently delivering on time - Help other engineers on the team increase their productivity through mentorship, coaching, and unblocking Basic Qualifications Bachelor degree or greater within Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject 3+ years developing Web APIs within Python (Flask) Working experience with ORMs or SQL RDBMSes Working experience constructing and optimising RDBMS queries Working experience within the asynchronous programming model 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!
	Airalo Senior Backend Engineer		0 days ago	Apply
	Description About Airalo Alo! Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store that helps people connect in over 200+ countries and regions across the globe. We are building the next digital service that revolutionizes the telecom industry. We are a travel-tech company and an equal-opportunity environment that values and executes diversity, inclusion, and equity. Our team is spread across 50+ countries and six continents. What glues us together is our commitment to changing the way you connect. About you We hope that you care deeply about the quality of your work, the intrinsic worth of tasks, and the success of your team. You are self-disciplined and do not require micromanagement in terms of your skillset and work ethic. You do your best to flourish as an individual every day while working hard to foster a collaborative team environment. You believe in the importance of being — and staying — authentic, honest, positive, and kind. You are a good interlocutor with clear and concise communication. You are able to manage multiple projects, have an analytical mind, pay keen attention to detail, and love to get your hands dirty. You are cognizant, tolerant, and welcoming of vulnerabilities and cultural differences. About the Role Position: Full-time / Employee Location: Remote-first Benefits: Health Insurance, work-from-anywhere stipend, annual wellness & learning credits, annual all-expenses-paid company retreat in a gorgeous destination & other benefits We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Developer with a focus on PHP and Laravel to join our expert team in building and optimizing large-scale distributed systems. You will play a key role in developing new features, enhancing existing ones, and driving technical excellence within our core product. We’re looking for passionate and results-driven professionals who thrive in a fast-paced, remote environment. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed systems that are performant and scalable. Develop new services and refactor existing ones for improved efficiency and scalability. Write enterprise-quality, horizontally scalable, maintainable code using industry best practices and in line with project specifications. Enhance and implement new features into our core product. Design and develop RESTful services and APIs for front-end clients and other consumers. Collaborate closely with front-end developers and backend engineers in migrating our monolithic application to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Write automated tests, ensuring the quality and reliability of your code. Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues as they arise. Actively participate in the full software development lifecycle, collaborating with team members on a daily basis. , Must-haves: 5+ years of full-time development experience in PHP, focusing on backend development. 2+ years of experience with Laravel, building and extending enterprise-level applications. Proven expertise in building large-scale distributed systems and scalable backend services. Strong experience in developing RESTful APIs and service-oriented architecture. Familiarity with event-driven architecture and messaging systems (e.g., Queue, Pub/Sub). In-depth knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases and caching strategies. Experience with AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, SQS, Aurora, and DynamoDB. Proficiency in OOP, SOLID principles, and design patterns. Experience in unit testing, feature testing, and mocking to ensure code quality. Hands-on experience with Docker for containerization and deployment. Excellent communication skills and fluency in English. , Good to haves: Knowledge of PaaS/SaaS, SOA, and microservices architecture. Prior experience in telecommunications or network infrastructure. Familiarity with eSIM and GSMA technologies. Experience in Traveltech If you are interested in this position, please apply via the link. Please note that our Engineering team works in the CET timezone, so candidates will need to reside in countries with the same time zone or similar to it and will need to already have permit to work in the country where they are based. We sincerely thank all applicants in advance for submitting their interest in this opportunity. Airalo is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity, equity & inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations upon request for individuals with disabilities throughout our job interview process.
	BioRender Senior Backend Engineer, Search and Recommendations		0 days ago	Apply
	Description At BioRender, our mission is to accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science. We are passionate about democratizing science communication in order to accelerate scientific discovery and understanding. We're looking for amazing people to help create the world’s go-to-place and platform where science is communicated. Come join us! We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer on our Search and Recommendations team to join our mission in democratizing science communication. Sample Projects: Design and build an offline pipeline for evaluating Search quality Integrate new ML models into Search path Investigate and design solutions to reduce Search latency Experiment with different ranking strategies to improve relevance Building infrastructure to support personalization efforts You will: Be a member of a cross-functional team: work closely with product, machine learning, data science, design, and science experts to understand and build solutions for our users Lead development of new Search and Recommendation features and ranking improvements end-to-end. Iterate on and optimize solutions using online experiments and data analysis Evaluate and deploy new ML models, and build on existing third-party integrations Contribute to process improvements, hiring/onboarding procedures, enhancing product quality, and optimizing our codebase and tooling. Successfully deliver substantial projects with a high level of quality, typically spanning 3 to 6 months. Provide mentorship and establish best practices across the engineering team, while promoting an inclusive team culture Our ideal fit brings: A strong background in backend engineering, with a knack for creating high-performing APIs capable of handling high volumes, especially for search requests. Proficiency in Python Functional knowledge of productionizing ML/data science models, collaborating closely with ML/data scientists for experimentation, analysis, and validation. A track record of designing systems that are simple, scalable, reliable, and performant. Enthusiasm for building tools and systems that enhance engineering productivity Expertise with NoSQL databases (like MongoDB), and cloud infrastructure (like AWS). Data platform background is a plus. Familiarity with our chosen tools in the JavaScript ecosystem (Node.js, Express.js, ReactJS) is a plus, but an interest in learning those tools and writing code in TypeScript is a must. Why join us? We are mission-driven, and work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery: BioRender figures have appeared in more than 16,000 publications! It’s a product that users love! We have a world-class NPS and a community of loyal fans. Check out our Testimonials page to see what our customers are saying about us: https://biorender.com/testimonials/ We are in the top quartile for profitability and year-over-year revenue growth, with users in 200+ countries. BioRender is an equal opportunity employer, and an inclusive hiring process and work environment is a part of our DNA. We’re remote-first and have team members across Canada and the United States. A physical office in Toronto is available, but you have the flexibility to work from anywhere. We’re backed by top investors, accelerators, and some of the most successful life science entrepreneurs and philanthropists in the world including Y Combinator, Malala Fund founders, and Fifty Years VC. We are committed to building a warm, inclusive, and diverse environment. Check out how we make sure our employees come first. Check out our candidate resource - Engineering, Product & Design at BioRender! You can also read more about the BioRender interview process and FAQs here! Check out what it's like to work at BioRender in Canada and the US! Please note that in Canada, only those companies licensed by a provincial or territorial engineering regulator may refer to themselves as an “engineer” and therefore, this role will be titled "developer" internally at BioRender.