Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Human Interest's Experiences team as a Senior Software Engineer and build the company's billing system from the ground up. You will work on business-critical services, improve complex processes, design user experiences, and collaborate with engineers and stakeholders. This role requires 7+ years of software engineering experience, expertise in scalable backend technologies and database platforms, and a proactive, problem-solving mindset. You'll have the opportunity to work on new projects and contribute to a company dedicated to improving retirement savings access. Human Interest offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience building scalable backend technologies
• Experience scaling database platforms (Nosql, SQL)
• You like solving for ambiguity - we’ll look to you for ideas on how to solve problems
• You are excited by opportunities to both break ground on new projects and provide fresh perspective onto past implementations
• You want to build and own your work end-to-end
• You are eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future
• Ability to think creatively, and share knowledge with others
• Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
• Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers

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
• Base salary for this position spans $200,000 - $220,000
• Depending on the position, additional compensation components such as bonus, commission, and equity may be offered
• All of our employees are offered a robust suite of physical, financial and mental wellness benefits