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 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.

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 the Team

The Portfolio Management team is responsible for the software system that manages each participant's retirement strategy. We seek to offer participants a wide set of investment options while building an effortless experience. Our offerings will enable participants to balance market risk versus reward with the ultimate goal of reaching their target savings and financial security at the time of retirement. Our products and solutions provide an investment experience that is accurate, timely, secure, auditable, scalable, and allows HIA and Plan Admins to maintain their fiduciary duty. Our team regularly undertakes projects that are critical to the company's success, often ranking as a top company goal. 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 products, features, and services from scratch that cater to a new set of partners and unlock new business opportunities. We are one of the teams contributing to offerings that will provide significant new growth for the company.

What you get to do every day

• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define technical requirements on the new user experience workflows
• Design, build, and maintain our user experiences for both external and internal customers.
• Implement front end User Interfaces in ReactJS
• Implement changes in back end Rest and GraphQL APIs in Node.js
• Make changes to existing backend services, workflows and front end User Interfaces to create a seamless experience
• Write clean, high-quality code and tests to keep our system fast, reliable, and easy to maintain
• Create adequate test cases, write tests to ensure full functionality
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.
• Contribute to our evolving engineering standards, tooling, and processes

What you bring to the role

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong technical skills and are an excellent collaborator.
• You like solving for ambiguity - we’ll look to you for ideas on how to solve problems.
• You implement systems large or small that are clear, maintainable, and correct. 
• You are excited by opportunities to both break ground on new projects and provide fresh perspective onto past implementations.
• You want to build and own your work end-to-end.
• You are eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future.
• Top notch communication skills. You can communicate well with engineers as well as non-engineers.
• Industry experience developing scalable, production quality backend systems.
• A desire to work with JavaScript or TypeScript

Nice to have

• Experience architecting complex SaaS products with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and microservices.
• Familiarity with our tech stack - Node.js, React.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS
• Strong knowledge of TypeScript.
• Past experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• 401k or finance tech background.
• Self-driven and willing to learn.
• Proficiency with Git as a version control system.

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. 

• Customer obsession
• Long-term orientation
• Autonomous and accountable teams
• An escalating bar for talent and performance 
• Fundamental optimism 

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 - 

• A great 401(k) plan: Our own! Our 401(k) includes a dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation (immediately vested) and $0 plan fees
• Top-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance
• Generous PTO and parental leave policies
• Addition Wealth - Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness
• Lyra - Enhanced Mental Health Support for Employees and dependents
• Carrot - Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits
• Candidly - Student loan resource to help you and your family plan, borrow, and repay student debt
• Monthly work-from-home stipend; quarterly lifestyle stipend
• Employee Resource Groups including Veterans, Lift Ev’ry Voice, Pride, LatinX, Families, and Women in Tech
• Fun online and regional events and celebrations and department and company offsites
• The vast majority of our positions can be 100% remote

We’re a great place to work (but don’t take our word for it) 

Here’s a list of our awards and accolades:

• Certified as a Great Place To Work® (2023-2024)
• Fortune Best Place to Work in the Bay Area (2024)
• Best Places to Work by Built In (2023-2024)
• America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes (2020-2022, 2024) 
• A Top Company by Y Combinator (2020-2023)
• Inc. Fastest Growing Companies (2021)

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 [email protected].

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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