Senior SDET, Systems and Performance Engineering

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 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.

Our values (the guiding principles that reflect our view on what’s important and what’s right): In it for customers, autonomous & accountable, outcomes driven, inclusive collaboration, and decisive.

Are you ready to join our amazing engineering team?

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. Joining our team requires passion for ownership - after all, this is what enables our users’ success. 

How we do it: 

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

About You

You are adept at building software frameworks and tools to test products both functionally and for load and scale. You thrive in working independently as well as within and across agile teams to deliver testing coverage wins for the company. You are comfortable and enjoy debugging and building cloud based software and infrastructure primarily focussing on the back end. You have successfully implemented deployment scripts to automate the creation of end to end testing environments for functional and performance validation in modern public cloud environments. You are comfortable with approaches to seed data and measure performance at scale for a variety of different kinds of cloud products and use cases.

About the Role

We are looking for a senior member of our engineering team to lead the build out of our end to end software testing infrastructure for functional and performance validation of back end systems. You will take the lead in building out the core infrastructure and tools used to validate our next generation horizontally scalable financial engine. You will collaborate with software engineering domain experts to build configurable and automated testing frameworks that directly validate our software atack. As you learn about our product and software components you will have the opportunity to grow into senior level roles in building out our product! As reliability and performance are key to earning our customers’ trust, you will build robust systems that are observable, maintainable, and scalable.

What you get to do every day

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automated testing frameworks -  testing a single component or complete end to end systems.
• Setting up automated test systems to build full stack and end to end testing suites that fit into our  CI/CD pipeline.
• Research new or better alternate automated testing solutions to keep pace with the evolving requirements.
• Create performance and scale tests to ensure our products meet and exceed the needs of our growth targets and new customer go-lives.
• Understand product requirements and standards. Define quality and test strategies for our products.
• Understand customer usage models and develop test plans and test cases that approximate real-world environments and scenarios.
• Work directly with Software Development Engineers, Product Managers and Operations/Support to understand product features and use cases, review technical/product designs, and implement automated test tools that help deliver quality features with efficiency.
• Be a subject matter expert on quality assurance, testing processes, methods and tools.
• Analyze test results and issues. Take appropriate follow up actions.
• Have a future opportunity to develop products and services in addition to test automation.

What you bring to the role

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent and 5-10 years overall SDET and/or development experience.
• Experience developing high quality test strategies and test automation.
• Track record of building and deploying automation and performance test frameworks in both cloud and local dev environments.
• Understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills and an ability to come up with creative solutions to difficult problems.
• Expert in API testing & API automation & tools.
• Experience in web application and device test automation using Selenium, Robotium, Appium or any equivalent tool/s.
• Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback and grow into senior development roles in our product - from our internal legacy and futuristic technical designs, to retirement domains and workflows that are critical for our business.
• Ability to think creatively, and share knowledge with others.
• Experience interacting/collaborating with other teams (development, product management, customer support).
• Excellent written and verbal communication, people and collaboration skills.

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.

Compensation - The salary range for this role is between $148,000 - $210,000. This information reflects a base salary range for this position based on current market data, and may vary by location. Exact compensation will be determined by the candidates' skills, experience, and other relevant factors. 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. 
• Employees also receive 100% paid employee health, vision, and dental premiums; dependent premiums are covered at 50%. 
• Generous PTO and parental leave policies.
• 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-wide 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.

Inclusive collaboration makes us a better business

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

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