Human Interest is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer, Remote - United States

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Engineer at Human Interest, a tech company offering retirement benefits to small and medium-sized businesses. The role involves architecting new microservices, improving complex processes, designing user experiences, collaborating with other engineers, and writing clean, high-quality code.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience building scalable backend technologies
• Experience scaling database platforms (Nosql, SQL)

Responsibilities

• Work on business-critical, foundational services that serve as the backbone of our entire platform
• Improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust and require less human intervention
• Design, build, and maintain our user experiences for both external and internal customers
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• Develop ownership over domains in our system and make informed engineering tradeoffs
• Advocate for and delight internal and external users
• Write clean, high-quality code and tests to keep our system fast, reliable, and monitorable
• Build integrations with other systems across the Engineering org
• Lead and participate in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing and production release
• Contribute to our evolving engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting complex SaaS products with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and microservices
• Familiarity with our tech stack - Node.js, React.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS
• Strong knowledge of TypeScript
• Past experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS or Microsoft Azure
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry - Financial Services, Healthcare, etc
• Self-driven and willing to learn
• Proficiency with Git as a version control system

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