1 month ago
Base Salary
$174k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and architecture for the transactions data model, including how user activity is modeled, recorded, and stored.
- Design and build customer reporting delivery through query APIs, scheduled and on-demand exports, webhooks, and event streams.
- Own API contracts, service-level agreements, versioning, backward compatibility, and deprecation for customer and downstream integrations.
- Architect and implement metering and billing systems that convert events into accurate and auditable charges.
- Ensure production-scale availability, correctness, observability, data quality, reconciliation, query performance, incident response, security, privacy, and audit compliance.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives, establish engineering standards, and mentor senior and mid-level engineers.
- Promote AI-assisted development practices using tools such as Claude Code and Cursor.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating high-availability, correctness-critical backend and data systems.
- Experience leading complex cross-team technical initiatives from definition through delivery with minimal oversight.
- Strong relational database and SQL skills, including schema design, complex queries, query performance, and safe production schema evolution.
- Experience designing and versioning APIs using Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar technologies.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code and Cursor.
- Strong written and verbal communication and experience influencing engineering, product, finance, and security stakeholders.
- Hands-on experience designing and owning event-driven architecture using Kafka, Pub/Sub, SNS/SQS, Debezium, or similar technologies.
- Preferred experience with usage-based metering and billing systems, Java and Spring Boot, Salesforce, NetSuite, Snowflake, customer-facing data delivery, platform API lifecycle management, process automation, identity standards, regulated industries, and engineering culture improvements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, and 401(k) with company match.
- Parental leave, unlimited paid time off subject to policy, and eight company-wide holidays.
- Additional benefits include referral bonuses, employee assistance, pet insurance, travel assistance, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and learning and development support.
- Full-time, in-office role based in McLean, VA, working five days per week.
About ID.me
ID.me builds a secure digital identity network and wallet used for identity proofing, sign-in, and community verification across government, healthcare, and commerce. The company sells authentication and verification services to agencies and enterprises, including NIST 800-63-3 IAL2/AAL2–approved credentials, plus group eligibility checks for discounts. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in McLean, VA, ID.me supports access at 20 U.S. federal and 45 state agencies and 70+ healthcare organizations.