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 more than $700M in primary and secondary financings and are backed by a number of investors. Most recently, this includes funding from Marshall Wace and Baillie Gifford, as well as top investors such as BlackRock, TPG (The Rise Fund), SoftBank, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and more.
Are you ready to join our amazing engineering team?
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. Joining our team requires passion for ownership - after all, this is what enables our users’ success.
How we do it:
About the Financial Engines team
The Financial Engines team enables the entire investment and retirement journey for a participant.
Our software systems provide the core functionality for participants to invest money efficiently and accurately, thus enabling them to achieve their target savings with financial security. Additionally our systems provide the core functionality to borrow or withdraw their money when they need it most.
The Financial Engines team is responsible for the software systems that manage core workflows responsible for investing into funds, managing cash and loans and moving money between accounts. Our goal is to provide participants an effortless experience while ensuring all operations are handled at high scale with accuracy. The Financial Engines transactions encompass the highest volume and most critical workflows in the entire company. Our products provide an investment experience that is highly scalable, accurate, timely and secure.
Our team regularly undertakes projects that are critical to the company's success, often ranking as a top company initiative. We are excited to be growing our team in 2024 to seize new and exciting business opportunities. In 2024 and beyond we will develop new features and services from scratch that cater to the most critical actors in our system including administrators, participants and service partners. These features will enable the success of the company by unlocking new revenue, time savings and cost optimizations. We are one of the teams contributing to offerings that will provide significant new growth for the company.
About You
You are passionate about building highly scalable transaction processing and automation engines. 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 JavaScript or TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, 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.
About the Role
As a highly impactful, hands-on, full stack engineer, you will lead challenging technical projects within the framework of an agile 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 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.
What you get to do every day
What you bring to the role
Why you will love working at Human Interest
Mission - Highly collaborative startup dedicated to supporting employee engagement and growth. It’s an opportunity to help solve one of the biggest unsolved problems in America: saving for retirement.
Culture - Our operating principles define how we come together as a team to do our work. They reflect Human Interest’s unique view on what’s important and what’s right. Documenting this core aspect of our culture helps employees make good decisions on their own. It also helps candidates considering career opportunities critically evaluate whether they will thrive at Human Interest.
Compensation - At Human Interest, there are a number of factors that are used to determine the appropriate pay range for each position. We take into account the cost of labor for each position in various markets across the US. The base salary for this position spans $160,000 - $185,000 and represents the minimum in our lowest geographic region to a maximum in our highest geographic region. The salary that we offer to a new employee within this range is based on their location within the US, their relevant job-related skills, and experience. At Human Interest, base salary is one component of the overall Total Rewards package. Depending on the position, additional compensation components such as bonus, commission, and equity may be offered. All of our employees are offered a robust suite of physical, financial and mental wellness benefits.
Benefits -
We’re a great place to work (but don’t take our word for it)
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Human Interest is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran or military status, pregnancy, or any other characteristics protected under federal, state, or local laws.
We are committed to making every stage of our application process fully accessible to all individuals. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point in the process, please let us know at applicantaccommodations@humaninterest.com.
Please note Human Interest does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. We will not consider resumes from vendors including and without limitation search firms, staffing agencies, fee-based referral services, and recruiting agencies.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We comply with CCPA guidelines.
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