Software Development Engineer V (Frontend) - Developer Portal

Company Overview

ID.me is a high-growth enterprise software company that simplifies how people prove and share their identity online.  The company empowers people to control their data through a portable and trusted login, which means they don’t need to create a new password when visiting sites that have the ID.me button.  ID.me’s digital identity network has over 117 million registered members, and is used by fourteen federal agencies, agencies in 30 states and over 600 corporations for secure identity proofing and verification.

ID.me’s technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. In addition to helping people control their credentials and data, the company’s “No Identity Left Behind” initiative strives to expand digital access and inclusion for all people. The company offers multiple pathways to identity verification – online self-serve, live video chat agents, and in person.  ID.me is passionate about building a robust identity network that does not compromise access for traditionally underserved groups.

ID.me has received numerous awards including Deloitte’s 2023 Technology Fast 500, Washington Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Companies, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies and Wall Street Journal’s Startup of the Year finalist.  In recent quarters, ID.me announced it raised $132 million in Series D funding, led by Viking Global Investors with participation from CapitalG, Morgan Stanley Counterpoint, FTV Capital, PSP Growth, Auctus Investment Group, Moonshots Capital, and Scout Ventures. ID.me’s most recent round brings the total investment in ID.me to over $275 million since its founding in 2010.

Role Overview

ID.me is looking for a Software Development Engineer V (Frontend) -  Developer Portal Team that will be pivotal in shaping the business's interactions with ID.me and over 100 million members. This team is tasked with managing the business onboarding Lifecycle, Policies, Analytics, and Billing. Your work with the team has direct engagement with members through their accounts, enhancing user satisfaction and trust. Additionally, your role is crucial in maintaining the integrity of member data and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards through diligent data management.

This role sits in Mountain View, CA, and has an onsite component of 5 days per week.

Responsibilities 

• Design, build and maintain, implement efficient, interactive, and responsive user interfaces for our customers
• Consistently deliver complex features without oversight and provide oversight to other team members on their deliverables.
• Guide 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.
• 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.
• Consistently ship small and medium features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Translate UX/UI design wireframes to actual code to bridge the gap between graphic design and technical implementation
• Define how the application looks and how it works, optimizing for scalability, maintainability, and speed

Qualifications 

• 8+ years of front-end development experience, including experience working on apps using server-side rendering.
• Solid understanding of web technologies, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, object-oriented design, REST-based APIs, and Git
• Strong understanding of querying techniques and optimizations on relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Experience working on B2C/B2B applications, particularly user onboarding, dashboards.
• Exposure to 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. 
• Experience with GCP or other cloud-based platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Must have an obsession for building quality