Senior Software Engineer, Human Interest
Backend, RecordKeeper
$190-210k
Full-service 401(k) plans for SMBs
Open for applications
Full-service 401(k) plans for SMBs
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$190-210k
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 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)
- 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
- 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
- All money movements utilize the recordkeeping platform, including contributions, roll-overs, distributions, loans, and more
- The transactional, trade, and position data housed by the recordkeeping platform power robust reporting for all financial and trading activity, including descriptive data that tells the full story of the activity
- This team is critical to the success of the business, being a foundational platform to record all the financial activities
- 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
- We:
- Value continuous improvement - we care about documentation, security, durability, not just throwing features over the wall
- Help each other be better engineers - we leave things better than we found it
- Aspire to collaborate seamlessly - we ensure our software is improving the customer experience
- As a member of the Core Backend team, you will get to 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 and making our customers happy
- As reliability and performance are key to earning our customers’ trust, you will build robust systems that are observable, maintainable, and scalable
- Joining our team requires passion for ownership - after all, this is what enables our users’ success
- 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 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.
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Company Specialist
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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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