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, including BlackRock and TPG (The Rise Fund) with SoftBank leading our Series D.
About the Team
The Recordkeeping team is responsible for bookkeeping of all the retirement plans served by Human Interest. The recordkeeping platform standardizes all transacting and trading on behalf of retirement plans and participants, including contributions, roll-overs, distributions, loans, and more.
About the role
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.
As a member of the Core Backend team, you will help build out our next generation horizontally scalable financial engine. You will collaborate with domain experts to design, build, test, and own systems and processes for servicing 401(k) plans. You will build robust systems that are observable, maintainable, and scalable.
About you
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).
What you get to do every day
- Build and maintain business-critical software to process and record customers' retirement savings.
- Improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust and higher performance.
- 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.
- Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems.
- Participate in development life cycle activities like 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 large-scale backend systems, managing elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures.
- Experience scaling database platforms (NoSQL, SQL).
- Experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems.
- Ability to quickly grasp the workings of accounting and 401k domains.
- Strong desire to learn and grow from our internal legacy and futuristic technical designs.
- Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
- Proactive and empathetic mindset.
- Completed formal training in computer science related discipline (Bachelors or Masters preferred).
Why you will love working at Human Interest
Mission - A highly collaborative startup dedicated to supporting employee engagement and growth.
Culture - Our operating principles define how we come together as a team. They reflect Human Interest’s unique view on what’s important.
- Customer obsession
- Long-term orientation
- Autonomous and accountable teams
- An escalating bar for talent and performance
- Fundamental optimism
Compensation - The base salary for this position spans $190,000- $210,000 based on location and experience.
Benefits - A great 401(k) plan, top-of-the-line health plans, generous PTO, and additional wellness benefits.
We’re a great place to work (but don’t take our word for it) - Certified as a Great Place To Work (2023-2024) and other accolades.
Human Interest is an equal opportunity employer.
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