10 months ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and support scalable, secure backend services and APIs for identity document processing and verification.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science/Machine Learning, and Infrastructure teams to deliver document verification features and translate ML outputs into backend solutions.
- Improve code quality through coding best practices, code reviews, testing coverage, performance optimization, security practices, and CI/CD improvements.
- Own backend architectural decisions involving API design, microservice architecture, secure data handling, scalability, resiliency, and service integration.
- Analyze production metrics and usage data to improve performance, scalability, reliability, response times, and uptime.
- Integrate machine learning and computer vision components into the document verification backend pipeline.
- Partner with frontend and mobile engineers to define API contracts, support end-to-end experiences, and troubleshoot integrations.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building and shipping modern backend services or distributed systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency with backend programming languages, especially Golang, and experience building APIs and microservices.
- Hands-on experience developing gRPC APIs and implementing server-side business logic.
- Experience designing scalable, high-availability services and APIs in cloud environments, including fault tolerance and low-latency systems.
- Understanding of backend performance optimization and security best practices for sensitive data, including service profiling, query optimization, and securing data in transit and at rest.
- Experience collaborating with frontend engineers, data scientists, product stakeholders, and other cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical concepts and requirements across disciplines.
About Socure
Socure builds an AI-driven digital identity verification and fraud prevention platform used by banks, fintechs, e-commerce, telecom, healthcare, and government agencies to automate KYC/AML, document verification, and risk decisioning. It sells enterprise APIs and workflows for onboarding, authentication, and payments fraud mitigation. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada, Socure is privately held and operates across regulated and high-volume digital markets.