Staff Software Engineer, Socure
$180-210k
+ Equity
Digital ID verification & fraud protection
Posted today
Digital ID verification & fraud protection
201-500 employees
Posted today
$180-210k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To verify 100% of good identities in real-time and completely eliminate identity fraud on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- Educational Background: BS or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience: 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and delivering large-scale backend systems
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in backend languages such as Java or Go, and familiarity with cloud-native technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, SQL/NoSQL databases, etc.)
- Architecture & Systems Design: Deep understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, service-oriented architecture, and performance tuning at scale
- Operational Rigor: Strong experience with monitoring, alerting, and reliability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Sentry), and improving SLAs and system resilience
- DevOps & SDLC: Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and test automation. Passion for improving deployment workflows and reducing manual toil
- Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and align across teams and stakeholders
- Leadership: Demonstrated success in a Staff or Lead Engineer role, mentoring engineers and driving broad technical initiatives
Desirable
- Experience with event-driven architectures, stream processing, or asynchronous systems using technologies like SQS or Kafka
- Experience in regulated environments or security-conscious domains (e.g., fraud detection, identity verification, fintech)
- Background in ML/AI integration in backend services or experience supporting Computer Vision or model-serving pipelines in production
- Contributions to operational excellence through incident management processes, blameless retrospectives, or SRE practices
- Deep familiarity with observability practices, including distributed tracing, logging, metrics, and dashboards
What the job involves
- We are looking for an exceptional Staff Backend Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team
- This is a high-impact role focused on backend technical leadership, operational excellence, and scalable architecture
- As a Staff Engineer, you will drive key initiatives that improve the reliability, performance, and extensibility of our systems
- You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Data Science to build best-in-class document verification products
- This is a critical leadership role for someone who is deeply technical, highly collaborative, and passionate about raising the bar for engineering excellence
- Backend Technical Leadership: Design, implement, and own scalable, reliable backend systems. Set direction for backend architecture, advocate for engineering best practices, and lead complex technical initiatives across teams
- Operational Excellence: Define and drive strategies to improve system reliability, observability, scalability, and maintainability. Proactively identify and address bottlenecks in performance, latency, and infrastructure
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Management, Frontend/Mobile Engineering, Computer Vision, Infrastructure, and Data Science teams to deliver impactful solutions that meet business and customer needs
- Mentorship & Engineering Culture: Act as a mentor and technical advisor for engineers across levels. Help shape our engineering culture by fostering a high-performance, collaborative, and inclusive environment
- Delivery Ownership: Lead the full development lifecycle of backend components — from ideation, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
- Production Stewardship: Champion high-quality releases, participate in the on-call rotation, and drive post-incident reviews and long-term solutions to recurring issues
- Strategic Impact: Bring a customer-centric and systems-thinking mindset to decision-making. Influence the direction of the platform and backend stack in alignment with company goals and product vision
Our take
Socure is an identity platform that aims to improve customer identification for digital transactions. The company is part of a growing market, with rivals in this competitive space including Signifyd, Riskified, AppsFlyer, ClearSale, Kount, SEON, and Fraud Fighters.
The engine delivered by Socure encompasses KYC (Know Your Customer), identity fraud detection, and document verification. With it, companies can scale rapidly by onboarding more good customers, and prevent online fraud. In addition, underbanked consumers who have been excluded from online services by outdated ID verification can gain access to critical benefits and services online.
Socure has rapidly escalated in popularity, and reached a valuation well over $1 billion. Though not immune from the economic downturn of late, which resulted in two high-profile rounds of lay-offs, the company has secured considerable additional funds that will strengthen its financial position as it moves to capitalize on the ever-growing importance of identity verification and trust.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$450m
SERIES E
Mar 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $646.6m
Company benefits
- Health: Comprehensive medical coverage, including vision, dental, and FSA
- Parental Leave: Generous leave allowance for parents-to-be
- 401k: Pre-tax savings for retirement
- Life Insurance: Protect your family in case of emergency
- PTO: Take as much time as you need, when you need it
- 100% Remote: Work from anywhere anytime, whatever suits your lifestyle
- WFH Allowance: Generous reimbursement program to maximize your WFH setup
- Deskpass: Work in an office environment whenever you feel the need
- Mental Health Provider: Connect with clinicians when you need it
- Learning & Development: Self-education allowance & free career coaching
- Employee Assistance Program "EAP": Lifestyle resources available as well as additional mental health resources
- Fertility Provider: Family planning solutions for those interested
- Personal Legal Support: Significant discounts with RocketLawyer
Company HQ
Incline Village, NV
Leadership
Johnny Ayers
(CEO)Founder & General Partner of Switch Hit Ventures. Having been a Senior Consultant at IBM, they became COO and Board Member of Endeavor Up. Since then, was an Advisor at Pager and later founded Socure in 2012.
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