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

Summary

The job is for a Core Backend Engineer at Human Interest, a fast-growing tech company offering retirement benefits. The role involves building scalable financial engines, collaborating with domain experts, and improving complex processes to make them more robust and efficient. The ideal candidate has 7 years of professional experience in backend software development, knowledge about large-scale backend systems, and a strong desire to learn.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience building and maintaining backend software
• Experience building large-scale backend systems, managing elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures
• Experience scaling database platforms (Nosql, SQL)
• Ability to quickly grasp the workings of accounting and 401k domains

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain business-critical software to process and record customers' retirement savings
• Improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance and require less human intervention
• 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
• Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and higher performance with less human intervention
• Make informed engineering tradeoff decisions
• Participate in development life cycle activities like analysis, design, coding, testing and production release

Preferred Qualifications

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