Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

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 $500M and are backed by leading investors. Most recently, by funding from BlackRock as well as many other top investors: TPG (The Rise Fund) with SoftBank led our Series D, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and others.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Builder Tools team, you will design and implement our cloud management infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and build tools that help speed up deployment frequency, and evolve our engineering organization into an ‘Elite Devops’ team. The bar for accuracy is high as we fulfill a very important mission: making saving for retirement achievable for all Americans - folks are trusting us with their money!

What you get to do every day

• Design and implement fault-tolerant and robust cloud infrastructures in AWS.
• Design and implement CI/CD for a multi-account, multi-service environment.
• Build tools for engineers that make them more efficient and simplify the development process.
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• 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.
• Mentor other engineers and deeply review code.

What you bring to the role

• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in cloud-based environments or 3 years with relevant formal education or corresponding industry certificates. 
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience with infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, etc.
• Minimum 2 years professional experience with CI/CD technologies such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Strong communication skills; discussing complex technical concepts to engineers and non-engineers is no problem to you.
• Strong desire to learn, think creatively, and share knowledge with others.
• 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.

Why you will love working at Human Interest

Mission - Highly collaborative startup dedicated to supporting employee engagement and growth. It’s an opportunity to help solve one of the biggest unsolved problems in America: saving for retirement.

Culture - Our operating principles define how we come together as a team to do our work. They reflect Human Interest’s unique view on what’s important and what’s right. Documenting this core aspect of our culture helps employees make good decisions on their own. It also helps candidates considering career opportunities critically evaluate whether they will thrive at Human Interest. 

• Customer obsession
• Long-term orientation
• Autonomous and accountable teams
• An escalating bar for talent and performance 
• Fundamental optimism 

Compensation - The salary range target for the role seniority described in this job description is $148,000 - $210,000. Final offer amounts depend on multiple factors in