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

Summary

The job is for a senior backend engineer at Human Interest, a high-growth tech company that provides retirement benefits to small and medium-sized businesses. The role involves leading technical projects within an agile team framework, building and maintaining software for processing and recording customers' retirement savings, and collaborating with domain experts.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience building and maintaining backend software
• Experience building scalable backend services
• You enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically
• Experience scaling database platforms (NoSQL, SQL)
• Strong desire to learn, share knowledge with others, exchange feedback, and grow
• Ability to write clean, performant, maintainable, testable code
• Proactive and empathetic mindset, eager to fix problems for our customers
• Formal training in computer science or a related discipline (Bachelors or Masters preferred)

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain software to process and record customers' retirement savings
• Improve processes and systems for robustness, performance, and reduced human intervention
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• Write clean, high-quality code and automated tests
• Develop and analyze monitors and tests to assess performance, scalability, and reliability
• Develop ownership over critical retirement workflows and domains
• Make informed engineering tradeoff decisions
• Delight internal and external stakeholders
• Participate in development lifecycle activities, including analysis, design, coding, testing, and production release

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