Senior Backend Technical Leader

3 weeks ago


San Francisco, California, United States Promote Project Full time

About the Role

In this impactful senior technical leadership position, you will drive the technical direction for our team of engineers across multiple 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 complex systems for serving 401(k) plans. Reliability and performance are key, so you will extend our system's robustness, scalability, observability, and maintainability.

About the Team

The 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. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in shaping our technical direction and ensuring the success of our projects.

What You'll Do

Define forward-looking architectures through designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs. value, and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders.
Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans, and roadmaps that align with the product vision.
Coach and mentor senior engineers to improve innovation, efficiency, and technical capabilities.
Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and higher performance with less human intervention.
Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.
Raise the bar for team standards, resulting in cleaner, well-documented, and higher quality code.
Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering fast, horizontally scalable, and reliable systems.
Advocate for forward-looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental.

What We Offer

A competitive salary range of $245,000- $275,000, determined by location, relevant job-related skills, and experience.
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.
Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness.
Enhanced Mental Health Support for Employees and dependents.
Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits.
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.

Why You'll 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.
Customer obsession
Long-term orientation
Autonomous and accountable teams
An escalating bar for talent and performance



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