Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack – Commerce & Loyalty (Shop)
About The Position
ID.me is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack to join the Commerce & Loyalty team. This team owns the ID.me Shop experience, which includes cashback, affiliate offers, merchant discounts, and loyalty programs, as well as the marketing and campaign surfaces that drive member engagement and commerce revenue. The role is based in our Mountain View, CA office and requires a full-stack approach, involving significant work on the React/Next.js web experience for Shop and SuperApp, as well as building and extending backend services and APIs. The Staff Software Engineer will serve as the technical anchor for the team's frontend surfaces, driving architectural decisions, improving engineering standards, and collaborating with Design and Product to translate commerce, personalization, and loyalty concepts into functional member experiences. This is a product-focused role centered on enhancing and scaling the Shop product experience, with contributions to shared infrastructure like UI Foundations being secondary and on an as-needed basis.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong frontend engineering experience (typically 5+ years)
- Deep expertise in vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and the DOM
- Hands-on experience shipping native Web Components in production (Custom Elements, templates, Shadow DOM, slots, events)
- Solid production experience with React (and Next.js)
- Experience with UI component libraries or design systems
- Familiarity with design tokens, theming, and scalable CSS (custom properties, shared stylesheets)
- Proven collaboration with design on system-level UI
- Strong grasp of accessibility standards and browser behavior
- Working proficiency in a backend language for building and maintaining REST services
- Full stack ownership experience, from frontend UI through backend services and APIs
- AI-native engineering practices — comfortable using AI tooling (e.g., code generation, test coverage, documentation) to accelerate development
Nice To Haves
- Experience with ID.me's commerce/marketplace stack and shared internal design systems
- Experience with micro-frontend architectures or contributing to a shared internal design system
- Experience building personalization, recommendation, offer-ranking, or loyalty/cashback UI
- Experience with affiliate network integrations or e-commerce/marketplace platforms
- Familiarity with identity, benefits, or credential-based access concepts
Responsibilities
- Build and Maintain Shop Web Experiences: Own and evolve the Shop front-end surfaces using React, Next.js, and TypeScript, including personalized offer discovery, cashback/loyalty flows, and merchant/store pages.
- Build and Extend Backend Services: Build and extend backend REST endpoints and services to support new or modified frontend features, taking full ownership from UI through backend.
- Integrate with Platform APIs: Integrate with Shopping Graph and Developer Portal APIs for merchant data, offer eligibility, and personalization signals.
- Support Infrastructure Modernization: Participate in ongoing platform work such as the GKE migration for Shop and adoption of shared UI patterns across the Shop codebase.
- Contribute to UI Foundations as Needed: When a component or pattern built for Shop has broader applicability, contribute it back to ID.me's shared design system.
- Partner Closely with Design and Product: Work hand-in-hand with Design and Product to turn discovery, personalization, loyalty, and campaign/marketing concepts into feasible, member-centered web UI.
- Set Engineering Standards: Define patterns for testing, code quality, and review processes for the team's codebase; mentor other engineers on the team.
- Performance, Accessibility & Reliability: Ensure shipped features meet ID.me's standards for performance, accessibility, and cross-browser reliability; provide production support, including triaging and resolving incidents and bugs.
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
