Staff Engineer Backend Engineering

Summary

The job is for a Senior Technical Leadership role in the Engineering team at Human Interest, a fast-growing tech company offering retirement benefits. The role involves leading a team of over 20 engineers, driving technical direction, mentoring senior engineers, defining architecture, and improving complex processes and systems.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products and systems
• Expertise in designing and building modular distributed applications to support a rapidly growing customer base
• Solid understanding of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient use of compute, storage, network, and virtualization technologies (preferably AWS)

Responsibilities

• Define forward-looking architectures through designs
• Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans, and roadmaps that align with the product vision
• Coach and mentor senior engineers to improve innovation, efficiency, and technical capabilities
• Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and higher performance with less human intervention
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• Raise the bar for team standards, resulting in cleaner, well-documented, and higher quality code
• Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering fast, horizontally scalable, and reliable systems
• Advocate for forward-looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental

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