Senior Staff Software Engineer
ProveAbout the role
About Prove
As the world moves to a mobile-first economy, businesses need to modernize how they acquire, engage with and enable consumers. Prove’s phone-centric identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions reduce friction, enhance security and privacy across all digital channels, and accelerate revenues while reducing operating expenses and fraud losses. Over 1,000 enterprise customers use Prove’s platform to process 20 billion customer requests annually across industries, including banking, lending, healthcare, gaming, crypto, e-commerce, marketplaces, and payments. For the latest updates from Prove, follow us on LinkedIn.
Prove is driving the future of digital identity. We are looking for Provers who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smart but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.
Prove has big plans, and we’re excited about the future. If this sounds like the place for you – come join our team!
About Us
As the world moves to a mobile-first economy, businesses need to modernize how they acquire, engage with and enable consumers. Prove’s phone-centric identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions reduce friction, enhance security and privacy across all digital channels, and accelerate revenues while reducing operating expenses and fraud losses. Over 1,000 enterprise customers use Prove’s platform to process 20 billion customer requests annually across industries, including banking, lending, healthcare, gaming, crypto, e-commerce, marketplaces, and payments. For the latest updates from Prove, follow us on LinkedIn.
Prove is driving the future of digital identity. We are looking for Provers who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smart but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.
Prove has big plans, and we’re excited about the future. If this sounds like the place for you – come join our team!
Title: Senior Staff Software Engineer
Reports To: Director, Engineering
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; or Palo Alto, CA
Job Summary:
This Senior Staff Software Engineer will enter Prove at a critical inflection point in its growth trajectory. You will make a huge impact as a key technical leader within Prove's engineering team, playing a critical role in bringing new and innovative products to market. There is an immense market opportunity in front of us. You will have senior management visibility as you help define and execute the technical direction for the engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Influences and independently drives novel technical change within a group of technical teams, including the introduction of new technologies, processes or product ideas
- Bridge the gap between making critical hands-on technical contributions and making effective business decisions.
- Lead design and architecture for new and existing software components.
- Lead architecture reviews, identify risks and advocate for simplicity of design and for cohesive APIs.
- Lead by example in implementing solutions that scale well and do not require manual maintenance.
- Take end-to-end ownership of new code from prototype to production.
- Act as a representative for a group of teams in technical cross-functional discussions, negotiations or progress reports
- When assigned strategic initiatives that affect multiple technical teams, able to obtain buy-in from various stakeholders, and drive the initiatives to completion.
- Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement.
- Force multiplier - supporting engineers on multiple teams and helping them to be successful. Provides technical mentorship to less senior engineers. Takes responsibility for ensuring the highest quality of technical work from their group of teams.
- Work directly with the Product organization to understand and refine requirements.
- Help set and maintain a high standard for engineering practices within the team
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