Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Onboarding

Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. 

Nearly half of all working Americans are not saving enough for their future. Too often it’s because they are employed by a company that doesn’t offer a retirement plan. Human Interest is changing that by making it affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses to offer employees a path to financial independence through retirement savings.

We’re a high-growth tech company changing the retirement industry. We’ve raised more than $700M in primary and secondary financings and are backed by a number of investors. Most recently, this includes funding from Marshall Wace and Baillie Gifford, as well as top investors such as BlackRock, TPG (The Rise Fund), SoftBank, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and more.

About the role

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on our Onboarding team, you will build industry-first products that allow businesses to launch their 401(k) in as little as five minutes, driving our business growth. You will collaborate with domain experts to design, build, test, and own systems and processes for servicing 401(k) plans and making our customers happy. As reliability is key to earning our customers’ trust, you will build robust systems that are observable, maintainable, and scalable. As an engineering organization, we:

• Value continuous improvement - we care about documentation, security, durability, not just throwing features over the wall.
• Help each other be better engineers - we leave things better than we found it.
• Aspire to collaborate seamlessly - we ensure our software is improving the customer experience.

What you get to do every day

• Design, build, and maintain our user experiences for both external and internal customers
• Work on business-critical, foundational services which serve as the data funnel of our entire platform 
• Improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust and require less human intervention
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• Develop ownership over domains in our system and make informed engineering tradeoffs
• Advocate for and delight internal and external users
• Write clean, high-quality code and tests to keep our system fast, reliable, and monitorable
• Lead and participate in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing and production release
• Contribute to our evolving engineering standards, tooling, and processes

What you bring to the role

• 7+ years of experience building and maintaining software in production
• Desire to work with the following technologies: Node, TypeScript, React, AWS and PostgreSQL
• Top notch communication skills. You can communicate well with engineers and non-engineers alike
• Strong desire to learn, think creatively, and share knowledge with others
• Enjoy mentoring other engineers and deeply review their code
• Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers
• Past experience working in startups and/or fintech

Nice to have

• Experience using and developing component libraries/design systems
• Familiarity with React Hooks
• Prior knowledge of GraphQL
• Past experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS or Microsoft Azure
• System design & architecture experience
• 401k or finance tech background
• Self-driven and willing to learn
• Proficiency with Git as a version control system

Why you will love working at Human Interest

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