Role Overview

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer III-Wallet Accounts to add to our rapidly growing Account product engineering team. In this pivotal role, you will use your design expertise to architect and drive alignment on technical designs across teams. You’ll have the opportunity to influence user experience through experimentation and data analysis. You’ll use your mastery of automated testing techniques such as TDD to ensure quality and maintainability. You will work closely with cross functional teams, including engineering, product, data, operations, and senior leadership to achieve your goals.

The Account team is responsible for Account registration, authentication (including multi-factor authentication), account security, and the member experience within their Account. The team is responsible for business critical applications with 99.99% uptime and direct impact to ID.me members. You will have the opportunity to build systems at scale, query large data sets and collaborate with key internal stakeholders to build functionality that over 100 million members depend on.

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 the team on larger projects.
• Collaborate with team members, product managers, and stakeholders to solve the right problems and build the best solutions for customer needs.
• 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.

Qualifications 

• 3 years developing web applications using OOP languages like Java, Ruby, Javascript,TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust or C .
• Understanding of querying techniques and optimizations on relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• 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 GCP utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, or Nomad.

Preferred Qualifications

• Must have an obsession for building quality products.
• Ability to thrive when there are changing priorities and shifting of gears.
• Must have strong oral and written communication skills, and be a team player with a self-managing work ethic.
• Must be a self-starter with a passion for software engineering, learning, and continuous improvement.
• BS in a quantitative or scientific field such as computer science, computer engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with Ruby on Rails.
• Startup experience.

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.