Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Human Interest, a high-growth fintech company revolutionizing the retirement industry, and make a lasting impact. We are building innovative solutions to make retirement savings accessible to employees of small and medium-sized businesses. As a senior engineer, you will build and enhance features that improve customer lives, mentor junior engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and develop reliable and scalable systems. You will be instrumental in architecting and scaling solutions that bring financial security to employees nationwide. We offer a unique opportunity to solve complex problems, drive innovation, and advance your career alongside a dedicated, mission-driven team. We value hard work and recognize that our team's contributions are key to our continued success.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience designing, building and maintaining large scale backend software products and systems
• Experience building interactive web applications using modern Typescript frameworks
• 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 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 know how to make tradeoffs required to ship code without compromising quality
• You thrive in a startup environment

Responsibilities

• Build features and enhancements that improve the lives of our customers
• Coach and mentor junior engineers in our organization to help raise the bar in innovation, efficiency and technical capability
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• Write clean, high-quality code and tests while keeping the system fast and reliable
• Develop and analyze monitors and tests to assess performance, scalability and reliability
• Develop ownership over critical retirement workflows and domains

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
• Competitive time off and parental leave
• 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
• Engaging team-building experiences, ranging from virtual social events to team offsites, promoting collaboration and camaraderie