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 is the leading platform for digital identity verification, compliance and fraud prevention solutions, trusted by the largest enterprises and government agencies to build trust and mitigate risk. Leveraging AI and machine learning, Socure’s industry-leading platform achieves the highest accuracy, automation, and capture rates in the industry. Serving more than 3,000 customers and 190+ countries across financial services, government, gaming, healthcare, telecom, and e-commerce, Socure’s customer base includes 18 of the top 20 banks, 4 of the Mag 7, the largest HR payroll and workforce providers, the largest sportsbook and prediction market operators, 130 public sector organizations including state and federal agencies across the public sector, and more than 600 fintechs. Leading organizations trust Socure to deliver certainty in identity across onboarding, authentication, payments, account changes, and regulatory compliance. Learn more at www.socure.com.