Senior Software Engineer, Experiences

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.

About the role

As an engineering organization, we seek to redefine the retirement services space with software that drives toward an effortless, efficient, scalable, and highly reliable cloud based experience. 

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.

Join our Experiences organization as part of a new team dedicated to creating a groundbreaking product for an emerging customer base. We see a unique opportunity to service multiple personas in the financial services industry and are developing new experiences tailored to these roles. This work will require coordination with all of our engineering teams. We want someone passionate about modeling the business opportunity and building a resilient system that will last at least 3-5 years out.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and developing new microservices from the ground up, ensuring seamless integration with our existing ecosystem. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation, working with cutting-edge technologies to deliver exceptional experiences. We seek a strong backend expert passionate about building scalable, robust services and driving forward our customer experience.

What you get to do every day

• Work on business-critical, foundational services that serve as the backbone of our entire platform.
• Improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust and require less human intervention.
• Design, build, and maintain our user experiences for both external and internal customers.
• 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.
• Build integrations with other systems across the Engineering org.
• 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 software engineering experience.
• Experience building scalable backend technologies.
• Experience scaling database platforms (Nosql, SQL).
• You like solving for ambiguity - we’ll look to you for ideas on how to solve problems.
• You are excited by opportunities to both break ground on new projects and provide fresh perspective onto past implementations.
• You want to build and own your work end-to-end.
• You are eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future.
• Ability to think creatively, and share knowledge with others.