Description:

Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits.
The company aims to make retirement plans affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses.
The engineering team seeks to redefine the retirement services space with software that is effortless, efficient, scalable, and highly reliable.
The Money In Financial Engines team delivers a cloud-based platform that operates with high precision, auditability, performance, efficiency, and interoperability.
The role involves driving the technical direction for an organization of over 20 engineers across 4 agile teams.
Responsibilities include defining and refining architecture, processes, and best practices, as well as mentoring senior engineers.
The successful candidate will collaborate with domain experts and engineers to design, build, test, and own systems for servicing 401(k) plans.
Daily tasks include defining architectures, driving delivery of prototypes, coaching engineers, and improving complex processes and systems.

Requirements:

A minimum of 10 years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products and systems is required.
Expertise in designing and building modular distributed applications to support a rapidly growing customer base is essential.
A solid understanding of auto-scaling cloud technologies, preferably AWS, is necessary.
The candidate should have experience delivering large-scale backend systems and managing elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures.
Experience in migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems while maintaining high reliability is required.
Strong mentoring skills and a desire to help other engineers grow technically are important.
The candidate should be able to articulate the business benefits of technical decisions clearly.

The position offers a great 401(k) plan with a dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation and no plan fees.
Employees receive top-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance.
Generous PTO and parental leave policies are provided.
Additional wealth management tools and financial professionals are available to support financial wellness.
Enhanced mental health support for employees and dependents is offered through Lyra.
Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits are available through Carrot.
Resources for student loan planning and repayment are provided through Candidly.
Employees receive a monthly work-from-home stipend and a quarterly lifestyle stipend.
The company promotes diversity through Employee Resource Groups and hosts fun online and regional events.
Most positions can be 100% remote, providing flexibility for employees.