Software Development Engineer V - Wallet Authentication

Role Overview

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer V - Wallet Authentication team. The account team is the frontdoor to ID.me. They are responsible for account registration, authentication (including MFA) and the members account experience for over 100M members. In addition to constantly improving the account registration and authentication experience they focus on securing & improving methods for MFA Recovery, Account lockout, and general account security. Additionally they work on improving our member experience in their account, in the wallet metaphor it’s your wallets digital representation.

This role requires to be onsite 5 days/week in our McLean,VA office.

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

• 8+ 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 are dedicated to safeguarding online identities, and we firmly believe that our collective efforts will drive positive change worldwide. This role requires on-site presence 4-5 days per week, based in one of our offices in McLean, VA, or the San Francisco Bay Area (scheduled to open in late 2024). Working together in an office setting cultivates our vibrant culture, enabling professional advancement, mentorship, collaboration, innovative strides, and authentic connections.

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