14 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$173k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and evolve the Trust Service API from contract design through database queries and production deployment.
- Own the trust inspection data model and REST API contract, including compatibility, versioning, and separation of public and internal interfaces.
- Ensure correctness under concurrent load and resolve database query-plan and service performance bottlenecks.
- Improve reliability through observability, structured logging, alerting, safe deployments, and on-call response.
- Write and review complex SQL queries against the identity graph schema and manage schema migration risks.
- Coordinate with Identity, Platform, Product, Architecture, and consumer-facing teams on data contracts, inspection types, and trust-chain dependencies.
- Independently drive small-to-medium backend features with minimal oversight while maintaining production-quality code and rollback safety.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 4 years of professional software development experience focused on backend service engineering, preferably with Java or another JVM language.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
- Strong experience with relational databases, complex SQL queries, query plans, and production database schemas.
- Experience designing and versioning REST APIs backed by OpenAPI specifications.
- Preferred: experience with modern Java and type-safety features such as records, sealed interfaces, and pattern matching.
- Preferred: familiarity with graph or highly relational data models, entity relationships, and traversal patterns.
- Preferred: understanding of identity and trust decisions, credential verification, reliability differences among verification methods, and trust expiration or decay.
- Preferred: experience with NIST 800-63-3, OAuth2, or OpenID Connect.
- Preferred: track record of shipping well-tested backend features with careful attention to failure modes, rollback safety, and backward-compatible schema changes.
- Preferred: startup or high-growth company experience with strong ownership and execution.
Benefits
- Full-time, in-office position requiring five days per week at an ID.me office in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL.
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, and life and AD&D insurance.
- 401(k) with company match, parental leave, unlimited paid time off subject to policy, and eight company-wide holidays.
- Short- and long-term disability, accident and critical illness insurance, employee assistance, pet insurance, and travel assistance programs.
- Referral bonuses, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.
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