Software Engineer, Human Interest
Backend, RecordKeeper Core
$160-185k
Full-service 401(k) plans for SMBs
Job no longer available
Full-service 401(k) plans for SMBs
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$160-185k
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 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 have strong technical skills in Java (bonus points for Kotlin), JavaScript or TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
- 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 characterized by unclear requirements
- 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 7 years of professional experience building and maintaining backend software
- Experience building large-scale backend systems, managing elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures
- Experience scaling database platforms (NOSQL, SQL)
- Strong technical skills in Java (bonus points for Kotlin), JavaScript or TypeScript,, Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
- Experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems while maintaining high reliability and availability
- Ability to quickly grasp the workings of accounting and 401k domains
- 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
- Ability to think creatively, and share knowledge with others
- Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
- Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers
- Completed formal training in computer science related discipline (Bachelors or Masters preferred)
What the job involves
- As part of the Core Backend team, you’ll play a key role in developing our next-generation, horizontally scalable recordkeeping platform. Recordkeeping is a complex and engaging domain, blending accounting principles with the design of scalable, distributed systems
- You’ll work alongside domain experts to design, build, test, and take ownership of the systems and processes that power our 401(k) services and drive customer satisfaction. Reliability and performance are essential to earning customer trust, so you’ll be building resilient, observable, maintainable, and scalable systems
- This role requires a strong sense of ownership—key to enabling the success of our users
- Build and maintain business-critical software to process and record customers' retirement savings
- 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
- Write clean, high-quality code and tests while keeping the system fast and reliable
- Develop and analyze monitors and tests to assess performance, scalability and reliability
- Develop ownership over critical retirement workflows and domains
- Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and higher performance with less human intervention
- Make informed engineering tradeoff decisions
- Delight internal and external stakeholders
- Participate in development life cycle activities like analysis, design, coding, testing and production release
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 preparing the foundations for a stock market listing. An indicator of this is its hiring of fresh leaderhsip talent who have previously worked at tech firms that have undergone successful IPOs.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Roger Lee
(Board Director & Co-Founder)Co-founder and CEO at Comprehensive. Studied Applied Mathematics at Harvard. Also co-founded Sub Profile and Thunder.
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