Staff 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 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.

As a Staff Software Engineer on our Builder Tools team, you will lead the design and implementation of our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering tools. Your goal will be to increase deployment velocity and confidence, raise our quality bar, and evolve Human Interest’s technical culture to an elite tier. Our bar for software correctness is high, as we are providing a critical financial service in order to solve America’s retirement crisis.  

About the Role

This is a highly impactful, hands-on, senior level technical leadership role where a successful candidate will drive the cloud-native technical strategy for our broader engineering organization, spanning 10+ teams. This includes providing technical guidance and mentorship to senior engineers, defining/refining our architecture, updating processes, and establishing best practices across the engineering organization. As a hands-on role, the successful candidate will collaborate with others to design, build, test, and own the infrastructure and processes that support our application engineering teams. Earning customer trust is key to our product’s success and therefore the role includes a focus on facets such as reliability, scalability, observability and maintainability.

What you get to do every day

• Define and evolve our engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Lead the design and implementation of secure, fault-tolerant and robust cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Lead the evolution of our design and implementation of Continuous Integration and Deployment in a multi-service environment
• Design and implement tools and frameworks to simplify the software development process.
• Define and drive success metrics to measure productivity and system health on facets like performance, availability, cost-effectiveness, developer productivity, and happiness.
• Coach and mentor senior level engineers to raise the bar for innovation, productivity, and technical capability.
• Write exemplary code and high-quality tests that result in performant, reliable, and observable systems.
• Lead and participate in software development life cycle activities including design, implementation, testing, and production releases.
• Identify and advocate for forward-looking technologies, architectures, and designs

What you bring to the role

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in designing, building, and scaling services, especially using cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• 3+ years experience with Infrastructu