Role Overview

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer who will contribute key consumer and partner-facing features of ID.me identity verification products. The successful candidate will possess a deep understanding of digital identity and digital wallet technologies and solutions, with a focus on building applications and services that power our identity verification products.

They will be responsible for driving technical vision, strategy, and execution with a strong emphasis on metrics, data-driven decision-making, and analysis. This role requires a combination of technical expertise, and the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and departments.

The Wallet Core team stands at the heart of ID.me's mission to simplify how people prove and share their identity online. The team spearheads the development of all NIST certified identity proofing and verification products, driving the foundation of ID.me's digital identity network and wallet. As a member of this team, you'll engage in building high-scale systems, analyzing extensive datasets, and partnering closely with stakeholders to deliver user-centric functionality. If you're passionate about delving into the intricacies of pioneering identity verification solutions, the Wallet Core team offers the perfect opportunity.

This is a key growth area for the company and a very exciting opportunity for entrepreneurial engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain highly scalable and secure web applications, services, and APIs.
• Consistently ship small and medium features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.
• Collaborate with team members, product managers, and stakeholders to solve the right problems and build the best solutions for customer needs.
• Drive front-end feature development for the team in collaboration with Product and UX (upward of 30% of time to be focused on the front-end).
• Effectively switch gears between maintaining and refactoring old code and writing newer and more modern services.
• Use test driven development practices and/or test frameworks and tools to ensure that features are shipped defect free.
• Demonstrate mastery of object-oriented programming languages, tools and technologies
• Solve complex technical problems with varying degrees of ambiguity.
• Act as a mentor to junior developers through code reviews and document critiques, and actively participate in cross team knowledge sharing forums.
• Proven track record of owning and shipping features end to end including thorough automated test coverage, observability, monitoring, and documentation.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 years developing web applications using OOP languages like Java, Ruby, Go, Python, Rust or C .
• Proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Experience in modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js
• Understanding of querying techniques and optimizations on relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Exposure with deploying features using A|B testing strategies and ability to interpret results.
• Experience building systems and services in a containerized, cloud based, infrastructure as code driven ecosystem in any cloud platform.
• Exposure with AWS or GCP utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, or Nomad.

Preferred Qualifications

• Must have strong oral and written communication skills, and be a team player with a self-managing work ethic.
• Experience with CSS preprocessors like Sass or LESS.
• Familiarity with front-end build tools such as Webpack, Gulp, or Grunt.
• Understanding of UI/UX design principles, accessibility standards, and cross-browser compatibility
• Must have an obsession for building quality products.
• Must be a self-starter with a passion for software engineering, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with adopting a product engineering oriented role within a team.
• BS in a quantitative or scientific field such as computer science, computer engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with Ruby on Rails.
• Startup experience.
• Ability to thrive when there are changing priorities and shifting of gears.

Vision: To be the world's leading digital identity network empowering people to control their own information and to prove their credentials across all channels: online, call center, and in-person.

Mission: To make the world a more trusted place by delivering the highest level of security with the least amount of friction at the lowest possible cost.

People: We have an audacious mission. We aim to fix the identity layer of the internet. Billions of people will live better lives with more trust and convenience thanks to ID.me. We are like Special Forces. We take on the most difficult challenges with amazing teammates.

At ID.me, we believe that an in-office culture fosters professional growth and development, mentorship, collaboration, and accelerated innovation. This position will be in-office based at one of our locations in either McLean, VA or Sunnyvale, CA. Working in an office together allows our culture to thrive and our team members to establish real connections with their coworkers and the opportunity for lifelong friendships. Our work is critical to protecting online identity and we’re confident that working together is how we’ll change the world.