Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Financial Engines)

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.

Are you ready to join our amazing engineering team ?

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. Joining our team requires passion for ownership - after all, this is what enables our users’ success. 

How we do it: 

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

About the Financial Engines team

The Financial Engines team enables the entire investment and retirement journey for a participant.

Our software systems provide the core functionality for participants to invest money efficiently and accurately, thus enabling them to achieve their target savings with financial security. Additionally our systems provide the core functionality to borrow or withdraw their money when they need it most. 

The Financial Engines team is responsible for the software systems that manage core workflows responsible for investing into funds, managing cash and loans and moving money between accounts. Our goal is to provide participants an effortless experience while ensuring all operations are handled at high scale with accuracy. The Financial Engines transactions encompass the highest volume and most critical workflows in the entire company. Our products provide an investment experience that is highly scalable, accurate, timely and secure.

Our team regularly undertakes projects that are critical to the company's success, often ranking as a top company initiative. We are excited to be growing our team in 2025 to seize new and exciting business opportunities. In 2025 and beyond we will develop new features and services from scratch that cater to the most critical actors in our system including administrators, participants and service partners. These features will enable the success of the company by unlocking new revenue, time savings and cost optimizations. We are one of the teams contributing to offerings that will provide significant new growth for the company.

About You

You are passionate about building highly scalable transaction processing and automation engines. You thrive on building efficient and horizontally scalable software platforms.  You are knowledgeable about backend software development, cloud infrastructure, performance analysis and scalable database technologies (both SQL and Nosql). You thrive under pressure and are committed to delivering high quality software under deadlines. You are adaptable and embrace working in a quickly changing environment. You demonstrate a strong sense of responsibility and possess the capability to successfully lead projects chara