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.

As 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.

We:

• Value continuous improvement - we care about documentation, security, durability, not just throwing features over the wall.
• Help each other be better engineers - we leave things better than we found it.
• Aspire to collaborate seamlessly - we ensure our software is improving the customer experience.

As a member of our Builder Tools team, you will design and implement our cloud management infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and build tools that help engineering teams to deliver code frequently and reliably. The bar for accuracy is high as we fulfill a very important mission: making saving for retirement achievable for all Americans - folks are trusting us with their money!

What you get to do every day

• Design and implement fault-tolerant and robust cloud infrastructures in AWS.
• Design and implement CI/CD for a multi-account, multi-service environment.
• Build tools for engineers that make them more efficient and simplify the development process.
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• Write clean, high-quality code and tests to keep our system fast, reliable, and monitorable.
• Lead and participate in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing, and production release.
• Contribute to our evolving engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Foster a DevOps culture to eliminate silos between engineering and operations

What you bring to the role

• Minimum 1 year of professional experience in cloud-based environments 
• Minimum 1 year of professional experience with infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, etc.
• Minimum of 2 years of software development experience
• Professional experience with CI/CD technologies such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Strong communication skills; discussing complex technical concepts to engineers and non-engineers is no problem to you.
• Strong desire to learn, think creatively, and share knowledge with others.
• Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
• Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers.

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 

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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 $95,000 - $175,000 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
• 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; annual wellness 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)
• Best Places to Work by Built In (2023)
• A Top Company by Y Combinator (2020-2023)
• America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes (2020-2022) 
• 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.

Human Interest employees must adhere to the Company’s security policies and Code of Ethics.

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 CCPAguidelines. See more: https://humaninterest.com/disclosures