Senior Software Engineer II

Company: Human Interest
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 6, 2024

Job Description:

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 in primary and secondary financings and are backed by a number of investors.
Join our amazing Engineering team
Our engineering organization aims to redefine the retirement services space with software that provides an effortless, efficient, scalable, and reliable user experience.

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• We value continuous improvement, emphasizing documentation, security, consistency, and scalability.
  
• We help each other be better engineers, ensuring we leave things better than we found them.
  
• We are customer-focused, ensuring our software improves the customer experience.
  
  About the Recordkeeping team
  The Recordkeeping team at Human Interest is dedicated to managing the bookkeeping of retirement plans, enabling the company to serve small businesses and close the retirement savings gap. Our proprietary recordkeeping platform is a major technology investment, supporting the unique needs of 401(k) plans for small businesses.
  This team is responsible for developing and maintaining trading, cash movement, and accounting systems that oversee billions of dollars in plan assets. Recordkeeping is a technically challenging domain and requires highly scalable solutions that meet the regulatory needs of a large financial institution.
  About the role
  As part of the Core Backend team, you'll play a key role in developing our next-generation, horizontally scalable recordkeeping platform. This role requires a strong sense of ownership-key to enabling the success of our users.
  About you
  You are passionate about building highly scalable transaction processing and automation engines. You thrive on building efficient and horizontally scalable software platforms.
  What you get to do every day
  
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  • 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.
    
  • Participate in development life cycle activities like analysis, design, coding, testing and production release.
    
    What you bring to the role
    
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    • Minimum 7 years of professional experience building and maintaining backend software.
      
    • Experience building large-scale backend systems.
      
    • Experience scaling database platforms (NoSQL, SQL).
      
    • Completed formal training in computer science-related discipline (Bachelor or Masters preferred).
      
      Why you will love working at Human Interest
      
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      • Mission: Highly collaborative startup dedicated to supporting employee engagement and growth.
        
      • Culture: Our operating principles define how we come together as a team to do our work.
        
        Compensation - At Human Interest, the base salary for this position spans $185,000- $220,000. 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.
        Benefits - A great 401(k) plan, top-of-the-line health plans, generous PTO and parental leave policies, and a suite of wellness benefits.
        We're a great place to work (but don't take our word for it). Here's a list of our awards and accolades:
        
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        • Certified as a Great Place To Work (2023-2024).
          
        • Fortune Best Place to Work in the Bay Area (2024).
          
          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.
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Keywords: Human Interest, Oakland , Senior Software Engineer II, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California