Software Engineer, Backend Engineering (Portfolio Management)

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. Most recently, by funding from BlackRock as well as many other top investors: TPG (The Rise Fund) with SoftBank led our Series D, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and others.

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. 

• 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 Portfolio Management team

The Portfolio Management team is responsible for the software system that manages each participant's current investment (retirement fund). Our team regularly undertakes projects that are critical to the company's success, often ranking as the top priority. We are developing new products, features, and services from scratch to cater to a brand new set of customer base, creating a significant new revenue source for the company.

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). 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.

What you get to do every day

• Build and maintain software to process and record customers' retirement savings.
• Improve processes and systems for robustness, performance, and reduced human intervention.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.
• Write clean, high-quality code and automated tests.
• Develop and …