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Empower

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10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Empower is a leading provider of financial services focused on helping individuals and organizations achieve financial freedom through retirement planning and investment management. Serving over 19 million Americans, Empower offers a comprehensive suite of finance-related services, including smart planning and investment advice, and tools like the Empower Personal Dashboard™ for a complete financial view. The company is renowned as a top retirement plan provider and works closely with personal investors, workplace plan savers, plan sponsors, and financial professionals. Empower is also recognized for initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and has a social commitment that bolsters community impact.

📋 Description

• Design and implement API-first and event-driven architectures that enable scalable, real-time system communication • Architect integration patterns including REST/ gRPC APIs, asynchronous messaging, and event-driven workflows across distributed systems • Define and enforce data contracts, schemas, and interface standards to ensure consistent, reliable data exchange across domains • Design for resilience in distributed systems, including preventing duplicate processing, managing retries and replays, and ensuring fault tolerance • Lead modernization of legacy integrations by reducing point-to-point dependencies and enabling loosely coupled architectures • Establish best practices for API lifecycle management including versioning, documentation, security, and governance • Provide architectural leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration to ensure consistent adoption of integration patterns

🎯 Requirements

• Experience designing and implementing scalable integration solutions across distributed systems • Strong understanding of API-based system design and modern integration approaches (e.g., synchronous and asynchronous patterns) • Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging concepts in real-world applications • Experience defining and managing interfaces or data exchange patterns across systems • Understanding of reliability considerations in distributed systems (e.g., handling failures, retries, or duplicate processing) • Experience working across a mix of legacy and modern systems in complex enterprise environments • Proficiency in backend or service-based development using languages such as Java, Python, or similar

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Internal mobility encouragement • Purpose and well-being recognition • Work-life balance emphasis • Volunteering opportunities