Sr. Software Development Engineer (Full Stack) - Verification Experiences

ID.me • Mountain View, CA

6h • Onsite

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join the Verification Experiences team at ID.me — the group responsible for building and evolving the core identity verification journey used by millions of members.
In this role, you’ll work closely with Product, Design, and fellow engineers to build secure, high-performance, and user-friendly web applications and workflows that power ID.me’s verification experiences. You’ll contribute across the stack to build the identity layer of the internet.
This is a hands-on engineering role ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, is not afraid of ambiguity, cares deeply about user experience and system reliability, and wants to contribute to a mission-driven product with nationwide impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 6+ years of professional experience in software development (full-stack).
• 6+ years of experience building and scaling customer-facing web applications.

Nice To Haves

• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, backend integration patterns, and secure web development.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to balance speed with technical quality.
• Experience with identity verification, authentication, or regulated UX flows.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience working in highly regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, or government services.
• Strong knowledge of identity resolution techniques, fuzzy matching, and record linkage algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end features for ID.me’s member verification experiences.
• Design and build scalable APIs that enable product teams to efficiently interact with multiple third-party identity vendors.
• Implement provider-agnostic workflows that allow flexible orchestration of identity verification services based on business rules, compliance needs, and real-time decisioning.
• Optimize system performance by designing resilient, fault-tolerant architectures with low-latency API calls and scalable data pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, security engineers, and infrastructure teams to define requirements and deliver high-impact solutions.
• Raise the bar for technical excellence, engineering best practices, testing strategies, and distributed system design through pairing, mentoring, architecture / code reviews, technical presentations, and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code following best practices in front-end and back-end development.
• Ensure compliance with identity, security, and data protection standards.
• Design, build, and maintain full-stack features for ID.me’s member verification experiences.

Benefits

• ID.me offers 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, ability to participate in 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, and a learning and development benefit.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees