Staff Software Engineer - Backend

October 5, 2024

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Human Interest

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Human Interest is a company that provides affordable and full-service 401(k) and 403(b) retirement plans, primarily targeting small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2015, they aim to streamline the retirement planning process through seamless payroll integrations with over 500 leading payroll systems. The company emphasizes low-cost funds and zero transaction fees, and offers customizable retirement solutions to meet the diverse needs of employers and their employees. Human Interest also provides investment advisory services through its subsidiary, Human Interest Advisors LLC. Their goal is to make retirement benefits accessible to businesses of varying sizes, enhancing employee financial wellness and satisfaction.

Financial Services • FinTech • Benefits • Personal Finance • SaaS

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 $200M Series D on 2021-08

📋 Description

• Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. • Nearly half of all working Americans are not saving enough for their future. Too often it’s because they are employed by a company that doesn’t offer a retirement plan. • We’re a high-growth tech company changing the retirement industry. We’ve raised $500M and are backed by leading investors. • Joining our team requires passion for ownership - after all, this is what enables our users’ success. • As an engineering organization, we seek to redefine the retirement services space with software that drives toward an effortless, efficient, scalable and highly reliable cloud based experience. • This is a highly impactful, hands-on, senior level technical leadership role.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building and maintaining large scale backend software products and systems. • Expert at designing and building modular distributed applications to support an extremely rapidly growing customer base(100x) • Solid understanding of the current landscape of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient usage of compute, storage, network and virtualization technologies. (preferably AWS) • You enjoy influencing cross-team standards, practices, and tools by modeling behaviors and demonstrating outcomes. • You can clearly articulate the business benefits that result from technical decisions. • You enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically. You often have become a key go-to person in your company, even on projects outside your project area. • You have delivered large scale backend systems including ingesting and processing data at significant scale, managed elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures. • You have experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems and databases while maintaining high reliability and availability. • Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback and grow - from our internal legacy and futuristic technical designs, to retirement domains and workflows that are critical for our business.

🏖️ Benefits

• A great 401(k) plan: Our own! Our 401(k) includes a dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation (immediately vested) and $0 plan fees • Top-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance • Generous PTO and parental leave policies • Addition Wealth - Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness • Lyra - Enhanced Mental Health Support for Employees and dependents • Carrot - Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits • Candidly - Student loan resource to help you and your family plan, borrow, and repay student debt • Monthly work-from-home stipend; quarterly lifestyle stipend • Employee Resource Groups including Veterans, Lift Ev’ry Voice, Pride, LatinX, Families, and Women in Tech • Fun online and regional events and celebrations and department and company offsites • The vast majority of our positions can be 100% remote