Software Development Engineer IV Wallet Accounts

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

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer IV-Wallet Accounts team. The account team is the frontdoor to ID.me. They are responsible for account registration, authentication (including MFA) and the members account experience for over 100M members. In addition to constantly improving the account registration and authentication experience they focus on securing & improving methods for MFA Recovery, Account lockout, and general account security. Additionally they work on improving our member experience in their account, in the wallet metaphor it’s your wallets digital representation.

We are open to hire this candidate in either location Sunnyvale, CA or McLean, VA

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain highly scalable and secure web applications, services, and APIs.
• Consistently ship small and medium features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Collaborate with 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.
• Use test driven development practices and/or test frameworks and tools to ensure that features are shipped defect free.
• 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.

Qualifications 

• 6+ years developing web applications using OOP languages like Java, Ruby, Javascript,TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust or C++.
• Understanding of querying techniques and optimizations on relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Exposure with 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. 
• Exposure with GCP utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, or Nomad.

Preferred Qualifications

• Must have an obsession for building quality products.
• Ability to thrive when there are changing priorities and shifting of gears.
• Must have strong oral and written communication skills, and be a team player with a self-managing work ethic.
• Must be a self-starter with a passion for software engineering, learning, and continuous improvement.
• BS in a quantitative or scientific field such as computer science, computer engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience w