\nAbout the Role\n\n\nAt LearnLux, you will build a product that changes lives. Our mission is to empower people to take control of their financial future, whether that means getting out of debt, buying their first home, or preparing for retirement. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to shape this mission by building features that directly impact millions of lives and contribute to a platform that is revolutionizing how people access fiduciary financial guidance.\n\n\nIn this role, you’ll tackle complex technical challenges that come with scaling a global platform, including data architecture, backend integrations, and software delivery infrastructure. Your contributions will be instrumental in building a scalable, secure, and high-performance platform. You won’t just be writing code—you’ll be influencing the direction of our product and technology, working closely with product, sales, and the broader LearnLux team to ensure we deliver on our mission.\n\n\nWe are a small, agile team that moves fast and encourages innovation. Here, you will have the space to experiment, learn, and grow, with the autonomy to lead initiatives that matter. You’ll be a key player in shaping not only our technology but also our engineering culture as we continue to scale. If you’re passionate about solving meaningful problems, driving technical excellence, and contributing to a mission that truly makes a difference, we’d love to meet you!\n\n\nThis role is 100% remote within the US and reports to the Head of Engineering.\n\n\nAbout LearnLux\n\n\nLearnLux is the leading provider of workplace financial wellbeing that blends fiduciary digital planning with access to one-on-one guidance from Certified Financial Planner™️ professionals. LearnLux's award-winning program equips employees with a financial plan to guide them through decision points like budgeting, paying down debt, electing benefits, understanding equity compensation, starting a family, buying a home, saving for retirement, and more. Advanced reporting keeps our partners in the know, and drives results like reduction in financial stress, increased productivity, reduced employee turnover, greater use of pretax products, on-time retirement, and healthcare savings. LearnLux members feel great about their money, allowing their work and wellbeing to thrive. We’re a remote-first company, backed by prominent operators such as Ashton Kutcher’s fund Sound Ventures and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.\n\n\n\nA day in the life:\n* Collaborate with the team to migrate and optimize services on Firebase and Firestore, evolving them into scalable solutions leveraging GCP and AWS.\n* Drive the adoption of cloud architecture best practices, utilizing infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform to manage multi-cloud environments.\n* Architect and implement multi-tenancy solutions that enable seamless scaling while maintaining data isolation and tenant-specific performance optimization.\n* Lead initiatives of all sizes and deliver products at scale, helping millions of people reach their financial goals.\n* Prioritize automation, developer productivity, and internal best practices, driving efficiency through clean code, thorough testing, and practical programming.\n* Ensure that innovation aligns with strong application performance and security standards.\n* Uphold a high standard of work quality, leading by example and mentoring less experienced engineers to achieve the same level of excellence.\n* Foster an atmosphere of open communication, encouraging engineers to share ideas and take initiative in solving problems that drive progress toward company goals.\n\n\n\nWhat we’re looking for:\n* Strong experience in Full Stack programming; TypeScript, Node.js, and React preferred. Experience with Python, Java, or C# is also welcomed.\n* In-depth knowledge of cloud scaling strategies and the ability to integrate GCP, AWS, or hybrid solutions to support a growing user base.\n* Proven experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) in cloud environments.\n* Experience with performance monitoring and optimization tools for cloud services, ensuring high availability and security across multi-tenant applications.\n* Experience building APIs and UIs that accelerate engineers’ ability to deliver on the product roadmap.\n* Proficiency in relational and non-relational databases, including schema design.\n* Commitment to continuous learning and fostering a culture of knowledge exchange.\n\n\n\n\n\n$130,000 - $180,000 a year\n\nLearnLux strives to be an inclusive workplace and values learning from and engaging across different perspectives. Women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and members of other minority or marginalized groups are strongly encouraged to apply.\n\n\nLearnLux is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against candidates on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, or veteran status.\n\n\nWe are committed to fostering an environment that embraces diversity and inclusion and are seeking candidates from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to join our team. If you are interested in this opportunity but not sure if you fit this role, please apply and include a note to let us know of your interest. We’re excited to speak with you about joining our team! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to React, Salesforce, Cloud, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $112,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote

\n\n\nHuman Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. \n\nNearly 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.\n\nWe’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.\n\nJoin our amazing Engineering team\n\nOur engineering organization aims to redefine the retirement services space with software that provides an effortless, efficient, scalable, and reliable user experience. \n\n\n* We value continuous improvement, emphasizing documentation, security, consistency, and scalability.\n\n* We help each other be better engineers, ensuring we leave things better than we found them.\n\n* We are customer-focused, ensuring our software improves the customer experience.\n\n\n\n\nAbout the role\n\nIn this impactful, hands-on senior technical leadership role, you will drive the technical direction for our organization of over 20 engineers across 4 agile teams. You will provide technical guidance and mentorship, define and refine our architecture, processes, and best practices. Collaborating with domain experts and engineers, you will design, build, test, and own systems for servicing 401(k) plans. Reliability and performance are key, so you will extend our system’s robustness, scalability, observability, and maintainability.\n\nAbout the Team\n\nThe 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. In 2024, our team will expand by approximately 60% to seize new and exciting business opportunities. We will develop 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.\n\nWhat you get to do every day\n\n\n* Define forward-looking architectures through designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs. value, and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders.\n\n* Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans, and roadmaps that align with the product vision.\n\n* Coach and mentor senior engineers to improve innovation, efficiency, and technical capabilities.\n\n* Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and higher performance with less human intervention.\n\n* Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.\n\n* Raise the bar for team standards, resulting in cleaner, well-documented, and higher quality code.\n\n* Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering fast, horizontally scalable, and reliable systems.\n\n* Advocate for forward-looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you bring to the role\n\n\n* Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products and systems.\n\n* Expertise in designing and building modular distributed applications to support a rapidly growing customer base.\n\n* Solid understanding of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient use of compute, storage, network, and virtualization technologies (preferably AWS).\n\n* Ability to influence cross-team standards, practices, and tools by modeling behaviors and demonstrating outcomes.\n\n* Clear articulation of the business benefits resulting from technical decisions.\n\n* Enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically, becoming a key go-to person in your company.\n\n* Experience delivering large-scale backend systems, managing elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures.\n\n* Experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems while maintaining high reliability and availability.\n\n* Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback, and grow—from internal legacy and futuristic technical designs to retirement domains and workflows critical for our business.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWhy you will love working at Human Interest\n\nMission - 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.\n\nCulture - 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. \n\n\nCustomer obsession\n\nLong-term orientation\n\nAutonomous and accountable teams\n\nAn escalating bar for talent and performance \n\nFundamental optimism \n\n\n\n\nCompensation - 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 $245,000 - $275,000 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.\n\nBenefits - \n\n\nA 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\n\nTop-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance\n\nGenerous PTO and parental leave policies\n\nAddition Wealth - Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness\n\nLyra - Enhanced Mental Health Support for Employees and dependents  \n\nCarrot - Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits\n\nCandidly - Student loan resource to help you and your family plan, borrow, and repay student debt\n\nMonthly work-from-home stipend; quarterly lifestyle stipend\n\nEmployee Resource Groups including Veterans, Lift Ev’ry Voice, Pride, LatinX, Families, and Women in Tech\n\nFun online and regional events and celebrations and department and company offsites\n\nThe vast majority of our positions can be 100% remote\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re a great place to work (but don’t take our word for it) \n\nHere’s a list of our awards and accolades:\n\n\n* Certified as a Great Place To Work® (2023-2024)\n\n* Fortune Best Place to Work in the Bay Area (2024)\n\n* Best Places to Work by Built In (2023-2024)\n\n* America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes (2020-2022, 2024) \n\n* A Top Company by Y Combinator (2020-2023)\n\n* Inc. Fastest Growing Companies (2021)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\nHuman 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.\n\nWe 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].\n\nPlease 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. \n\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We comply with CCPA guidelines.\n\nSee more: https://humaninterest.com/disclosures\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Cloud, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $102,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, California, United States

\nHuman Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. \n\nNearly 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.\n\nWe’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.\n\nAbout the role\n\nAs 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. \n\nWe:\n\n\n* Value continuous improvement - we care about documentation, security, durability, not just throwing features over the wall.\n\n* Help each other be better engineers - we leave things better than we found it.\n\n* Aspire to collaborate seamlessly - we ensure our software is improving the customer experience.\n\n\n\n\nJoin our Experiences organization as part of a new team dedicated to creating a groundbreaking product for an emerging customer base. We see a unique opportunity to service multiple personas in the financial services industry and are developing new experiences tailored to these roles. This work will require coordination with all of our engineering teams. We want someone passionate about modeling the business opportunity and building a resilient system that will last at least 3-5 years out.\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and developing new microservices from the ground up, ensuring seamless integration with our existing ecosystem. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation, working with cutting-edge technologies to deliver exceptional experiences. We seek a strong backend expert passionate about building scalable, robust services and driving forward our customer experience.\n\nWhat you get to do every day\n\n\n* Work on business-critical, foundational services that serve as the backbone of our entire platform.\n\n* Improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust and require less human intervention.\n\n* Design, build, and maintain our user experiences for both external and internal customers.\n\n* Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.\n\n* Develop ownership over domains in our system and make informed engineering tradeoffs.\n\n* Advocate for and delight internal and external users.\n\n* Write clean, high-quality code and tests to keep our system fast, reliable, and monitorable.\n\n* Build integrations with other systems across the Engineering org.\n\n* Lead and participate in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing and production release.\n\n* Contribute to our evolving engineering standards, tooling, and processes.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you bring to the role\n\n\n* 7+ years of software engineering experience.\n\n* Experience building scalable backend technologies.\n\n* Experience scaling database platforms (Nosql, SQL).\n\n* You like solving for ambiguity - we’ll look to you for ideas on how to solve problems.\n\n* You are excited by opportunities to both break ground on new projects and provide fresh perspective onto past implementations.\n\n* You want to build and own your work end-to-end.\n\n* You are eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future.\n\n* Ability to think creatively, and share knowledge with others.\n\n* Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.\n\n* Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers.\n\n\n\n\nNice to have\n\n\n* Experience architecting complex SaaS products with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and microservices.\n\n* Familiarity with our tech stack - Node.js, React.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS\n\n* Strong knowledge of TypeScript.\n\n* Past experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.\n\n* Experience working in a highly regulated industry - Financial Services, Healthcare, etc.\n\n* Self-driven and willing to learn.\n\n* Proficiency with Git as a version control system.\n\n\n\n\nWhy you will love working at Human Interest\n\nMission - 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.\n\nCulture - 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. \n\n\nCustomer obsession\n\nLong-term orientation\n\nAutonomous and accountable teams\n\nAn escalating bar for talent and performance \n\nFundamental optimism \n\n\n\n\nRead more\n\nCompensation - 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 $190,000 - $210,000 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.\n\nBenefits - \n\n\nA 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\n\nTop-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance\n\nGenerous PTO and parental leave policies\n\nAddition Wealth - Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness\n\nLyra - Enhanced Mental Health Support for Employees and dependents  \n\nCarrot - Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits\n\nCandidly - Student loan resource to help you and your family plan, borrow, and repay student debt\n\nMonthly work-from-home stipend; quarterly lifestyle stipend\n\nEmployee Resource Groups including Veterans, Lift Ev’ry Voice, Pride, LatinX, Families, and Women in Tech\n\nFun online and regional events and celebrations and department and company offsites\n\nThe vast majority of our positions can be 100% remote\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re a great place to work (but don’t take our word for it) \n\nHere’s a list of our awards and accolades:\n\n\n\n\n* Certified as a Great Place To Work® (2023-2024)\n\n* Best Places to Work by Built In (2023-2024)\n\n* America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes (2020-2022, 2024) \n\n* A Top Company by Y Combinator (2020-2023)\n\n* Inc. Fastest Growing Companies (2021)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nHuman 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.\n\nHuman Interest employees must adhere to the Company’s security policies and Code of Ethics. \n\nPlease 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. \n\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We comply with CCPA guidelines. See more: https://humaninterest.com/disclosures \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to SaaS, Cloud, Git, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $115,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

\nHuman Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. \n\nNearly 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.\n\nWe’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.\n\nJoin our amazing Engineering team\n\nOur engineering organization aims to redefine the retirement services space with software that provides an effortless, efficient, scalable, and reliable user experience. \n\n\n* We value continuous improvement, emphasizing documentation, security, consistency, and scalability.\n\n* We help each other be better engineers, ensuring we leave things better than we found them.\n\n* We are customer-focused, ensuring our software improves the customer experience.\n\n\n\n\nAbout the role\n\nIn this impactful, hands-on senior technical leadership role, you will drive the technical direction for our organization of over 20 engineers across 4 agile teams. You will provide technical guidance and mentorship, define and refine our architecture, processes, and best practices. Collaborating with domain experts and engineers, you will design, build, test, and own systems for servicing 401(k) plans. Reliability and performance are key, so you will extend our system’s robustness, scalability, observability, and maintainability.\n\nAbout the Team\n\nThe 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. In 2024, our team will expand by approximately 60% to seize new and exciting business opportunities. We will develop 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.\n\nWhat you get to do every day\n\n\n* Define forward-looking architectures through designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs. value, and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders.\n\n* Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans, and roadmaps that align with the product vision.\n\n* Coach and mentor senior engineers to improve innovation, efficiency, and technical capabilities.\n\n* Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and higher performance with less human intervention.\n\n* Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.\n\n* Raise the bar for team standards, resulting in cleaner, well-documented, and higher quality code.\n\n* Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering fast, horizontally scalable, and reliable systems.\n\n* Advocate for forward-looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you bring to the role\n\n\n* Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products and systems.\n\n* Expertise in designing and building modular distributed applications to support a rapidly growing customer base.\n\n* Solid understanding of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient use of compute, storage, network, and virtualization technologies (preferably AWS).\n\n* Ability to influence cross-team standards, practices, and tools by modeling behaviors and demonstrating outcomes.\n\n* Clear articulation of the business benefits resulting from technical decisions.\n\n* Enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically, becoming a key go-to person in your company.\n\n* Experience delivering large-scale backend systems, managing elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures.\n\n* Experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems while maintaining high reliability and availability.\n\n* Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback, and grow—from internal legacy and futuristic technical designs to retirement domains and workflows critical for our business.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWhy you will love working at Human Interest\n\nMission - 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.\n\nCulture - 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. \n\n\nCustomer obsession\n\nLong-term orientation\n\nAutonomous and accountable teams\n\nAn escalating bar for talent and performance \n\nFundamental optimism \n\n\n\n\nRead more\n\nCompensation - 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 $200,000 - $220,000 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.\n\nBenefits - \n\n\nA 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\n\nTop-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance\n\nGenerous PTO and parental leave policies\n\nAddition Wealth - Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness\n\nLyra - Enhanced Mental Health Support for Employees and dependents  \n\nCarrot - Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits\n\nCandidly - Student loan resource to help you and your family plan, borrow, and repay student debt\n\nMonthly work-from-home stipend; quarterly lifestyle stipend\n\nEmployee Resource Groups including Veterans, Lift Ev’ry Voice, Pride, LatinX, Families, and Women in Tech\n\nFun online and regional events and celebrations and department and company offsites\n\nThe vast majority of our positions can be 100% remote\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re a great place to work (but don’t take our word for it) \n\nHere’s a list of our awards and accolades:\n\n\n\n\n* Certified as a Great Place To Work® (2023-2024)\n\n* Best Places to Work by Built In (2023-2024)\n\n* America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes (2020-2022, 2024) \n\n* A Top Company by Y Combinator (2020-2023)\n\n* Inc. Fastest Growing Companies (2021)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nHuman 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.\n\nHuman Interest employees must adhere to the Company’s security policies and Code of Ethics. \n\nPlease 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. \n\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We comply with CCPA guidelines. See more: https://humaninterest.com/disclosures \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Cloud, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $115,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco Bay Area, California, United States