Senior Software Engineer II

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

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 because their employers don’t offer retirement plans. Human Interest is changing that by making retirement plans affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses, enabling employees to achieve financial independence.

As a member of our Builder Tools team, you will design and implement our cloud management infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and build tools. These tools will enable more efficient, reliable deployments that will raise the quality of our software. Our bar for software correctness is high as we fulfill our mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Mentor other engineers and deeply review code.

Requirements

• Minimum Experience: 5 years of professional experience in designing, building, and scaling services, especially using cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Minimum 2 years of professional experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Cloud Development Kit (CDK), etc. Experience employing IaC with Continuous Deployment preferred.
• CI/CD Technologies: Minimum 2 years professional experience with CI/CD technologies such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Communication Skills: Strong communication skills – ability to easily discuss complex technical concepts with both engineers and non-engineers.
• Ownership & Action: Strong ownership and bias for action – proactive, drives projects from start to finish, and leads cross-functional projects, while keeping stakeholders informed.
• Coding Skills: Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
• Mindset: Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers.

Application Instructions

• Not specified.

Company Information

• Mission: Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits.
• Focus: Making retirement plans affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses.