Title: Backend Software Engineer

Department: Technology

Reports To: Manager, Engineering

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Chicago Metro Area, IL or Denver Metro Area, CO

Job Summary:
We’re looking for a back-end developer to be part of the team designing and developing the digital identity infrastructure. 

The ideal candidate will have a unique blend of technical expertise, curiosity and analytical mindset. 

In this role you will get the opportunity to leverage your knowledge and passion for excellence. You will deliver well-thought-out software solutions as part of a fault-tolerant, scalable platform utilizing a variety of cutting-edge technologies. 

This is a hands-on role where you will need to demonstrate the skills, experience, and confidence to work with other senior engineers and product management team members to deliver solutions that will delight our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams and other developers regarding progress on technology roadmap. 
• Own delivery of software features from Product to Production, develop project roadmap, engage with Product to define technical requirements and design, engage with IT/Ops to ensure software makes it out to production in a timely manner.
• Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs. 
• Develop and oversee testing schedules. Address content displays as intended. 
• Produce quality code. Write code and test, build prototypes, resolve issues and profile and analyze bottlenecks. 
• Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchased alternatives. 
• Creates new ideas, solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges.
• Uses unconventional areas as sources of inspiration and insight into new options and solutions.
• Solves complex problems through developing new explanations or applications.
• Contributes ideas for improvements in work methods, systems, processes, and procedures.
• Encourages responsible risk taking to achieve high quality results; fosters two-way communication.
• Presents changes and uncertainties to others with a positive attitude, emphasizing the opportunities and the actions to be taken.
• Make it a routine to investigate the root cause of problems, inviting others to share what they have learned.
• Encourages others to experiment and try new ideas, helping to create a safe-to-fail environment.
• Empowers team members to take actions with a sense of urgency, providing timely feedback based on clear metrics; assists others to improve efficiency.
• Facilitates information and ideas sharing within teams and across organization boundaries.

Qualifications and Experience:

• 4-5+ years of software development experience; Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming and experience with at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g., Go, Java, Python) 
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to complex problems.
• Experience with public cloud services.
• Experience with database internals, database language theories, database design, SQL, GraphQL and No SQL technologies.
• AWS Certification is a plus 
• DevOps Experience highly desirable
• Promote, maintain, and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion, and leadership.
• Strong passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training.
• Experience in high growth /pre-IPO Technology companies is a plus.

This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.

The anticipated salary range for this role is $120,000 - $135,000 plus company bonus. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, geo-location and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.