Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. More than half of all working Americans are not saving enough for their future, often because their company doesn't offer a retirement plan. Human Interest aims to make it affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses to offer retirement savings plans.
Requirements
- Minimum 6 years of professional experience building software for backend systems.
- Your experience is in building, enhancing, and maintaining scalable backend technologies and infrastructure for RESTful API based data exchange.
- You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
- You develop in TypeScript, node.js, or other Javascript languages running on cloud-based platforms like AWS or GCP, and have working familiarity with observability frameworks such as Datadog or NewRelic.
Responsibilities
- Build robust infrastructure to support data exchange for more than half a million participants.
- Explore third-party payroll systems to learn how our partners share their data with us.
- Interface with third party providers in the space to collaborate on technical solutions
- Write clean, high-quality code and tests to keep our system fast, reliable, and monitorable.
- Participate in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing, and production release.
- Contribute to our ever evolving engineering standards, tooling and processes.
- Contribute to our SOA and be a valuable member of the team that builds new services from scratch.
Other
- Strong communication skills; discussing complex technical concepts to engineers and non-engineers is no problem to you.
- You have a strong desire to learn, think creatively, and share knowledge with others.
- You have a proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers.
- Completed formal training in computer science related discipline (Bachelors or Masters preferred).
- You thrive in a remote environment
