Senior Backend Engineer

Human Interest is a high-growth tech company changing the retirement industry by making retirement plans affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses.
$185,000 - $220,000
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
7+ years of experience
Finance · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Backend Engineer

Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. As a high-growth tech company, we're changing the retirement industry by making it affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses to offer employees a path to financial independence through retirement savings.

Our engineering organization aims to redefine the retirement services space with software that provides an effortless, efficient, scalable, and reliable user experience. We value continuous improvement, emphasizing documentation, security, consistency, and scalability.

As part of the Core Backend team, you'll play a key role in developing our next-generation, horizontally scalable recordkeeping platform. 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. This role requires a strong sense of ownership and expertise in building highly scalable transaction processing and automation engines.

You'll be responsible for:

  • Building and maintaining business-critical software to process and record customers' retirement savings
  • Improving complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance, and require less human intervention
  • Collaborating with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
  • Writing clean, high-quality code and tests while keeping the system fast and reliable
  • Developing and analyzing monitors and tests to assess performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Delivering features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems

We offer a competitive compensation package, including a base salary range of $185,000 - $220,000, depending on location and experience. Our benefits include a great 401(k) plan with employer match, top-of-the-line health plans, generous PTO and parental leave policies, and various wellness benefits.

Join us in our mission to solve one of the biggest unsolved problems in America: saving for retirement. We're a certified Great Place to Work® and have been recognized by Fortune, Forbes, and Inc. for our growth and workplace culture.

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Responsibilities For Senior Backend Engineer

  • 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
  • Make informed engineering tradeoff decisions
  • Delight internal and external stakeholders
  • Participate in development life cycle activities like analysis, design, coding, testing and production release

Requirements For Senior Backend Engineer

Java
JavaScript
  • 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
  • Ability to think creatively, and share knowledge with others
  • Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye toward maintainability
  • Proactive and empathetic mindset
  • Completed formal training in computer science-related discipline (Bachelor or Masters preferred)

Benefits For Senior Backend Engineer

401k
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Mental Health Assistance
Parental Leave
  • 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation
  • Top-of-the-line health plans, dental and vision insurance
  • Generous PTO and parental leave policies
  • Addition Wealth - financial wellness support
  • Lyra - Enhanced Mental Health Support
  • Carrot - Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits
  • Candidly - Student loan resource
  • Monthly work-from-home stipend
  • Quarterly lifestyle stipend
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Fun online and regional events and celebrations

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