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ID.me

Runs a digital ID wallet for online sign-ins

Staff Software Engineer - Biometrics and Credentials

Backend EngineeringPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeMountain View, CA, USA$194k - $253k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 8 years of professional experience developing backend services and APIs in production environments.
  • At least 8 years of experience with at least one backend language: Python, Go, Java, Ruby, TypeScript, or Rust, and with modern frameworks.
  • Understanding of Neo4j or graph databases and experience contributing to data ingestion and data pipelines.
  • Experience building systems and services in a containerized, cloud-based ecosystem driven by infrastructure as code.
  • A proven track record of owning and shipping features end to end, including thorough automated test coverage, observability, monitoring, and documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement core services and APIs that power the Identity Trust Graph, representing mappings between entities, attributes, and credentials.
  • Build RESTful and GraphQL endpoints that meet strict standards for reliability, latency, and security, and integrate seamlessly with internal and external systems.
  • Develop robust data models and storage patterns to represent credential provenance and entity-attribute relationships across relational and graph databases, including Neo4j.
  • Implement graph lifecycle flows, including ingestion, validation, and enrichment, integrated with identity verification and attribute validation systems.
  • Ensure the security and privacy of identity data through strong authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit practices.
  • Ship features and improvements consistently, collaborating on larger projects and switching between maintaining legacy code and writing modern services.
  • Collaborate with team members, product managers, and stakeholders to solve problems and build solutions for customer needs.
  • Mentor junior developers through code reviews, document critiques, and cross-team knowledge-sharing forums.
  • Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code, including automated tests and observability instrumentation.
  • Contribute to system design discussions, code reviews, and technical documentation to drive clarity and alignment across teams.
  • Continuously optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of graph services in production environments.
  • Stay current on emerging identity and credentialing standards, such as Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, and OIDC extensions, and bring new ideas into the product.

Desired Qualifications

  • Demonstrated expertise in building and operating public-facing REST or GraphQL APIs at scale.
  • Deep experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and NoSQL or graph data stores.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, caching, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native patterns.
  • Experience implementing authentication and authorization using OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, or custom schemes.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including containerization with Docker, Kubernetes, or Nomad, and deployment pipelines.
  • Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor to accelerate delivery and code quality.
  • Exposure to A/B testing strategies and the ability to interpret results.
  • Knowledge of event-driven architectures such as Kafka and SNS/SQS, and patterns for decoupled service communication.
  • Exposure to digital credential and identity standards, including Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, and W3C DID specifications.
  • Familiarity with identity and credential verification systems, including data validation, proofing, or trust scoring.
  • Experience in regulated or high-assurance domains such as government, financial, or healthcare systems.
  • Experience working with Ruby on Rails.
  • Startup experience.

About the Company

ID.me

Runs a digital ID wallet for online sign-ins

ID.me runs a digital identity wallet that lets people prove who they are online once, then sign in to government agencies, health systems, and online stores without repeating the check. In 2018, it became the first identity provider certified to the federal standard for proving a person's identity online, and in 2021 the IRS adopted it for taxpayers' online accounts. Users photograph a government ID and take a selfie, or confirm who they are with an ID.me agent on a video call, and the result is saved for reuse on other sites. Organizations that accept ID.me pay for each check or through subscriptions, and people use it for free. ID.me was founded in 2010 to verify military members for online discounts and is based in McLean, Virginia.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Series E
Total funding
$727.3M
Headquarters
McLean, VA
Founded
2010

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