Staff Engineer

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.

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 You

You are passionate about designing and delivering highly scalable and reliable service oriented architectures. You’re comfortable with the lifecycle of feature and service development including data modeling, component design, sizing, building prototypes and gaining buy-in from technical and business stakeholders. You are a mentor for senior engineers in your organization and enjoy coaching them toward improving effectiveness and technical capabilities. You are knowledgeable in the areas of  transaction processing, automation engines, reporting, integrations and cloud based technologies. You have conducted detailed performance analysis of systems and have designed scalable databases(both SQL and Nosql). You are a highly collaborative team player who is willing to both learn from as well as coach your teammates. You are committed to continuous learning and improvement.

About the Role

This is a highly impactful, hands-on, senior level technical leadership role where the successful candidate will drive the technical direction for our organization of over 20 engineers across 4 agile teams. This includes providing technical guidance and mentorship to our senior engineers and technical leads. The role involves defining and refining our architecture, processes and best practices across our organization. As this is a hands-on role, the successful candidate will collaborate with domain experts, technical leads and engineers to design, build, test, and own systems and processes for servicing 401(k) plans and making our customers happy. As reliability and performance are key to earning our customers’ trust, the role includes owning the overall robustness of our area and extending our system’s reliability, scalability, observability and maintainability.

What you get to do every day

• Define forward looking architectures through creation of designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs value and gaining buy in from key technical, product and business stakeholders.
• Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans and roadmaps that align with the product vision of our organization and in conjunction with technical leads.
• Coach and mentor senior level engineers in our organization to help raise the bar in innovation, efficiency and technical capability.
• Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance and require less human intervention
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• Raise the bar of our team’s standards resulting in cleaner, well documented and higher quality code.
• Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering systems that are fast, horizontally scalable and reliable.
• Speak up and advocate for forward looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental.

What you bring to the role

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building and maintaining large scale backend software products and systems.
• Expert at designing and building modular distributed applications to support an extremely rapidly growing customer base(100x)
• Solid understanding of the current landscape of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient usage of compute, storage, network and virtualization technologies. (preferably AWS)
• You enjoy influencing cross-team standards, practices, a