Staff Engineer, Human Interest
Financial Engines
$245-275k
Full-service 401(k) plans for SMBs
Open for applications
Full-service 401(k) plans for SMBs
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$245-275k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Human Interest's mission is to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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, and tools by modeling behaviors and demonstrating outcomes
- You can clearly articulate the business benefits that result from technical decisions
- 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
- You have delivered large scale backend systems including ingesting and processing data at significant scale, managed elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures
- You have experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems and databases while maintaining high reliability and availability
- Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback and grow - from our internal legacy and futuristic technical designs, to retirement domains and workflows that are critical for our business
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Human Interest is a company offering 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). SMBs have historically been unable to afford benefits for employees, leaving around 40 million Americans without a retirement plan. Human Interest is helping to change this with its platform that has eliminated all 401(k) transaction fees.
The company has seen strong adoption from businesses that have not previously had retirement benefits, including construction, retail, and hospitality - making waves in its target market. Its successes so far have allowed Human Interest to sharpen its competitive edge against similar companies such as Guideline.
With a series of substantial funding rounds under its belt, the company is looking to expand its network of integrations and partnerships with financial advisers, benefits brokers, and payroll companies, as well as hiring additional talent across various teams. Human Interest has also stated that it is eyeing a possible IPO for sometime in the near future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2024
$242m
LATE VC
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $576.9m
Company benefits
- A great 401(k) plan: our own! Our 401(k) includes a dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation
- Top-of-the-line health, dental, and vision, with employee premiums fully paid and dependent premiums 50% covered by Human Interest
- Stock options for every employee
- Generous FTO (exempt) and PTO (non-exempt) policies
- HSA or FSA offering with an annual employer contribution
- An annual membership to One Medical Group, with membership fees paid by Human Interest
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance
- Generous parental leave policy
- Dollar-for-dollar match of employee donations to nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, up to $1,000 per year
- Monthly work from home stipend
- Comprehensive training and professional development via Beacon U plus an annual education stipend
- Annual wellness stipend
Company values
- Customer obsession: We start with customer outcomes and work backward to define the work required to achieve them.
- Long-term orientation: We make decisions that maximize outcomes over a long timeframe. We do not make short-term optimizations that come at the cost of the long-term outcomes we aim to achieve.
- Autonomous and accountable: We are transparent about expectations, take responsibility, and hold each other accountable.
- An escalating bar for talent and performance: We strive to continually raise the bar for talent at our company. We do not tolerate average performance.
- Fundamental optimism: We are fundamentally optimistic people. We acknowledge problems and challenges, but then move on to find ways to deliver for our customers, despite these challenges.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Roger Lee
(Board Director)Co-founder and CEO at Comprehensive. Studied Applied Mathematics at Harvard. Also co-founded Sub Profile and Thunder.
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