Role Overview
Role available in either Sunnyvale, CA or McLean, VA.
ID.me is looking for a Software Development Engineer IV - Wallet Growth 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 collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
The Identity Growth team represents the tip of the spear, helping ID.me achieve its vision of being the world's leading digital identity network. The team's mission is to create new products and features that empower new use cases and open new verticals. For those that desire to be on the frontlines of product development and crave the challenge and notoriety that comes with it, the Identity Growth team at ID.me is where you want to be. 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.
- 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++.
- 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.
