Senior Software Development Engineer - Shopping Graph
About The Position
ID.me is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to help design and build the next-generation SaaS Commerce Platform and Developer Ecosystem. The Shopping Graph team provides the primitives for merchant registration, identity-gated discounts, resource management, and policy enforcement—enabling both internal applications and external developers to build trusted, identity-powered commerce experiences. As a Senior Engineer, you will be a key individual contributor implementing the APIs and backend services that power merchant onboarding, identity-gated offers, and OAuth 2.0 access flows. You will collaborate closely with Staff and Principal engineers to deliver scalable, secure, and developer-friendly APIs that form the foundation of ID.me’s commerce ecosystem.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 6+ years of experience in backend software engineering, including API development for customer-facing products.
- 5+ years of experience in one or more modern languages such as Java, Ruby, Go, or Python, with experience building RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
Nice To Haves
- Strong understanding of API design, versioning strategies, and contract-first development practices.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP), infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform), and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of identity and access management standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or SAML.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, or similar.
- Experience building high-reliability systems with a focus on performance, fault tolerance, and operational excellence.
- Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS architectures or identity-powered commerce platforms.
Responsibilities
- Implement and maintain Merchant, Resource, Discount, and UseCase API endpoints as core primitives of the Commerce Platform.
- Build reliable, well-tested backend services that support both internal applications and external developers.
- Contribute to an API-first, platform-first codebase ensuring services are scalable, extensible, and secure.
- Partner with the Developer Experience team to deliver intuitive onboarding flows for external merchants and developers.
- Write clear API documentation and contribute to developer-facing resources that enable easy integration.
- Work with the Authentication Platform, Organization Platform, Marketplace Apps, and Identity Graph teams to ensure consistency across ID.me’s ecosystem.
- Drive adoption of best practices in distributed system design, observability, reliability engineering, and modern DevOps tooling.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to team standards and engineering excellence.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts)
- Basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Accident and critical illness insurance
- Referral bonus policy
- Employee assistance program
- Pet insurance
- Travel assistant program
- Wellbeing and childcare discounts
- Benefit advocates
- Learning and development benefit
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
