Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Human Interest's Financial Engines team as a Senior Engineer and contribute to building the next generation of our horizontally scalable financial engine. You will lead challenging technical projects, collaborate with domain experts, and build robust, observable, and maintainable systems for processing 401(k) plans. This role requires a minimum of 7 years of backend software development experience, expertise in scalable technologies, and a passion for mentoring. Human Interest offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits including a 401(k) plan, health insurance, generous PTO, and a supportive work environment. We are a high-growth tech company with a mission to make retirement savings accessible to all, and we are committed to continuous improvement and employee growth. The position offers the opportunity to work on business-critical software and make a significant impact on the company's success.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience building and maintaining backend software
• Experience building scalable backend technologies
• Experience scaling database platforms (Nosql, SQL)
• 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
• Completed formal training in computer science related discipline (Bachelors or Masters preferred)

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
• Make informed engineering tradeoff decisions
• Delight internal and external stakeholders
• Participate in development life cycle activities like analysis, design, coding, testing and production release

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• 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
• Ability to think creatively, and share knowledge with others

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