Staff Software Engineer - Backend

October 5

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Human Interest

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Financial Services • FinTech • Benefits • Personal Finance • SaaS

501 - 1000

💰 $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