Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Portfolio Management)

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.

Join our amazing Engineering team

Our engineering organization aims to redefine the retirement services space with software that provides an effortless, efficient, scalable, and reliable user experience. 

• We value continuous improvement, emphasizing documentation, security, consistency, and scalability.
• We help each other be better engineers, ensuring we leave things better than we found them.
• We are customer-focused, ensuring our software improves the customer experience.

About Portfolio Management team

The Portfolio Management team is responsible for the software system that manages each participant's current investment (retirement fund). Our team regularly undertakes projects that are critical to the company's success, often ranking as the top priority. In 2024, our team will expand by approximately 60% to seize new and exciting business opportunities. We will develop new products, features, and services from scratch to cater to a brand new set of customer base, creating a significant new revenue source for the company.

About you

As a senior backend engineer, you will lead challenging technical projects within an agile team framework. You excel in backend software development, cloud infrastructure, performance analysis, and scalable database technologies. You will help build our next-generation horizontally scalable financial engine, collaborating with domain experts to design, build, test, and own systems for servicing 401(k) plans. Reliability and performance are crucial, and you will build robust, observable, maintainable, and scalable systems. You are a collaborative team player who is eager to learn and coach teammates, committed to continuous improvement.

What you get to do every day

• Build and maintain software to process and record customers' retirement savings.
• Improve processes and systems for robustness, performance, and reduced human intervention.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.
• Write clean, high-quality code and automated tests.
• Develop and analyze monitors and tests to assess performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop ownership over critical retirement workflows and domains.
• Make informed engineering tradeoff decisions.
• Delight internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in development lifecycle activities, including analysis, design, coding, testing, and production release.

What you bring to the role

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience building and maintaining backend software
• Experience building scalable backend services.
• You enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically. 
• You often have become a key go-to person in your company, even on projects outside your project area.
• Experience scaling database platforms (NoSQL, SQL)