Software Development Engineer IV - Wallet Identity (Full Stack 30% FE) - ID.me
McLean, VA
About the Job
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 who will contribute key consumer and partner-facing features of ID.me identity verification products. The successful candidate will possess a deep understanding of digital identity and digital wallet technologies and solutions, with a focus on building applications and services that power our identity verification products.
They will be responsible for driving technical vision, strategy, and execution with a strong emphasis on metrics, data-driven decision-making, and analysis. This role requires a combination of technical expertise, and the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and departments.
The Wallet Core team stands at the heart of ID.me's mission to simplify how people prove and share their identity online. The team spearheads the development of all NIST certified identity proofing and verification products, driving the foundation of ID.me's digital identity network and wallet. As a member of this team, you'll engage in building high-scale systems, analyzing extensive datasets, and partnering closely with stakeholders to deliver user-centric functionality. If you're passionate about delving into the intricacies of pioneering identity verification solutions, the Wallet Core team offers the perfect opportunity.
This is a key growth area for the company and a very exciting opportunity for entrepreneurial engineers.
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 team members, product managers, and stakeholders to solve the right problems and build the best solutions for customer needs.
- Drive front-end feature development for the team in collaboration with Product and UX (upward of 30% of time to be focused on the front-end).
- 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years developing web applications using OOP languages like Java, Ruby, Go, Python, Rust or C++.
- Proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Experience in modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js
- Understanding of querying techniques and optimizations on relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- 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 AWS or GCP utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, or Nomad.
Preferred Qualifications
- Must have strong oral and written communication skills, and be a team player with a self-managing work ethic.
- Experience with CSS preprocessors like Sass or LESS.
- Familiarity with front-end build tools such as Webpack, Gulp, or Grunt.
- Understanding of UI/UX design principles, accessibility standards, and cross-browser compatibility
- Must have an obsession for building quality products.
- Must be a self-starter with a passion for software engineering, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Experience with adopting a product engineering oriented role within a team.
- BS in a quantitative or scientific field such as computer science, computer engineering or equivalent experience.
- Experience working with Ruby on Rails.
- Startup experience.
- Ability to thrive when there are changing priorities and shifting of gears.
Vision: To be the world's leading digital identity network empowering people to control their own information and to prove their credentials across all channels: online, call center, and in-person.
Mission: To make the world a more trusted place by delivering the highest level of security with the least amount of friction at the lowest possible cost.
People: We have an audacious mission. We aim to fix the identity layer of the internet. Billions of people will live better lives with more trust and convenience thanks to ID.me. We are like Special Forces. We take on the most difficult challenges with amazing teammates.
At ID.me, we believe that an in-office culture fosters professional growth and development, mentorship, collaboration, and accelerated innovation. This position will be in-office based at one of our locations in either McLean, VA or Sunnyvale, CA. Working in an office together allows our culture to thrive and our team members to establish real connections with their coworkers and the opportunity for lifelong friendships. Our work is critical to protecting online identity and we're confident that working together is how we'll change the world.
The annual base salary listed below for this role is based on experience, skills, education, relevant training and geographic location. Company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity, and benefits are available depending on the role.
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.
The above represents the anticipated total rewards package for this job requisition. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.
ID.me maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All ID.me employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. ID.me does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. ID.me adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, ID.me's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.
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