Human Interest
Senior Data Engineer
About this role
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. 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. We’re a high-growth fintech company changing the retirement industry. We are backed by a number of investors. This includes funding from Marshall Wace and Baillie Gifford, as well as top investors such as BlackRock, TPG (The Rise Fund), SoftBank, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and more. About the role As a Senior Data Engineer on the Data Access team, you will be a technical anchor for Human Interest’s data platform at a pivotal moment in Human Interest's growth. This role exists to build and own the infrastructure that ensures the data powering our products, our customer reporting, and our business metrics are reliable and well governed. You will drive the evolution of our data platform toward an architecture that scales for AI consumption and for Human Interest's next growth stage. This is a high-ownership role where your architectural decisions will have a direct and visible impact on Human Interest's capabilities. The Data Access team is Human Interest's internal data platform team. We own the full data stack from ingestion and orchestration through transformation, governance, and delivery to BI tools. Our stack includes Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Meltano, and Terraform on AWS. We're a small, highly collaborative team embedded within the HI Tech organization, working closely with Analysts, Finance, Product, and engineering teams to ensure that the data people rely on is trustworthy and accessible. You'll have the opportunity to shape how we evolve our architecture towards AI-consumption and to set the standard for how production data assets are built, certified, and maintained at Human Interest. The team actively uses AI tools as part of our development workflow, and we expect this role to help drive and expand that practice across the team. What you get to do every day
- Define and maintain data governance standards including access controls, data lineage, and contracts between data producers and consumers
- Lead the technical direction and evolution of our data platform as we move toward an AI-first data infrastructure. You will design for AI consumption, unstructured data access, and integration with AI tooling from the ground up.
- Build and scale data pipelines and architectures that make data accessible and useful to both human analysts and AI systems.
- Own end-to-end design and development of scalable data pipelines, from ingestion and orchestration to transformation and delivery, using tools including AWS, Terraform, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, Meltano, Python.
- Drive data platform reliability through performance optimization, data quality monitoring, and SLA-based prioritization of our most critical data assets.
- Leverage and champion AI-assisted development tools, including Claude Code, to accelerate development velocity across the team.
- Mentor data engineers and analysts, raising the technical bar across the team. What you bring to the role
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer with a strong focus on production data pipelines and data infrastructure development.
- Strong experience with AWS data services in a production context, including storage, compute, and pipeline tooling.
- Hands-on experience with managing cloud data warehouse technologies, including Snowflake or equivalent, covering access control, performance tuning, and cost management.
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
- Competitive time off and parental leave
- Addition Wealth: Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness
- Lyra: Enhanced Mental Health 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; quarterly lifestyle stipend
- Engaging team-building experiences, ranging from virtual social events to team offsites, promoting collaboration and camaraderie. We’re a great place to work (but don’t take our word for it) Here’s a list of our awards and accolades:
- Certified as a Great Place To Work® (2023-2025)
- Fortune Best Place to Work in the Bay Area (2024)
- Best Places to Work by Built In (2023-2024)
- America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes (2020-2022, 2024)
- A Top Company by Y Combinator (2020-2023)
- Inc. Fastest Growing Companies (2021) 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. Employment with Human Interest is at-will, meaning either you or the company may terminate employment at any time, with or without cause or notice, except as otherwise provided by law or written agreement. We are committed to making every stage of our application process fully accessible to all individuals. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point in the process, please let us know at yourself against fraud and identity theft. Apply to our open positions directly via our careers page on Greenhouse. Human Interest will never ask applicants for their financial or banking information as part of our application process. All legitimate communication will come from a @humaninterest.com email address. If you have questions, please reach out to us directly at 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 CCPAguidelines. See more: