Engineering Manager, Builder Tools

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.

What you get to do every day

• Utilize your leadership experience to assist high performing and engaged teams while also promoting a safe environment for people to experiment, learn and grow.
• Ensure there is a clear shared vision for engineering within the team, and a roadmap on how to get there.
• Leverage your engineering experience to mentor teams to build quality software.
• Work closely with your cross-functional teams to cultivate a fun, rewarding, agile and results-driven culture.
• Make intelligent trade offs while balancing, communicating, and prioritizing the needs of your team and the business as a whole.
• Establish and embody necessary processes and practices that enable the team to successfully develop, support, and maintain our solutions.
• Attract, recruit, and retain motivated and engaged engineers, building on and complementing the diversity of our teams.
• Be a role-model within Human Interest by supporting and growing the next generation of engineering leaders.
• Support mission critical infrastructure and architecture platform that powers the rest of Human Interest.

What you bring to the role

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining quality software in production at scale. 
• Minimum of 1 year managing a technical team of developers in a fast paced environment.
• Expertise in AWS cloud management and best practices.
• Implemented best of class CI/CD pipelines and quality automation gates.
• You care deeply about culture and foster collaborative, inclusive teams in which people are empowered to do their best work.
• Knowledge of software design and agile processes to effectively deliver product.
• Understanding of application security lifecycle and security best practices.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Past experience working in startups and/or fintech.
• Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Please feel free to apply to this position even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements listed above.

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 

Compensation - The salary range target for the role seniority described in this job description is $200,000 - $215,000. This information reflects a base salary range for this position based on current market data, and may vary by location. Final offer amounts depend on multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, geographic location, compensation/equity mix, and market data. This position may also be eligible for additional incentives such as equity awards, short-term incentives, or sales compensation.

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 Heath 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

About Human Interest: 

We’re a high-growth, Series D-funded company that’s changing the retirement industry. Named one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes, one of the Best Places to Work by the San Francisco Business Times, and a Top Company by Y Combinator, we’ve raised $337M and are backed by leading investors, including TPG (The Rise Fund), SoftBank, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and others.

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 CCPA guidelines. See more: https://humaninterest.com/disclosures