Software Engineer, Persona
Infrastructure
$130-220k
Offer equity packages; Salary ranges reflect regional market standards for our SF and NY office locations
Identity verification infrastructure solution
Open for applications
Identity verification infrastructure solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$130-220k
Offer equity packages; Salary ranges reflect regional market standards for our SF and NY office locations
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the ideal identity verification experience for your business and customers.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS in computer science, software engineering or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of work experience as an infrastructure engineer working with cloud-based infrastructure, online data stores and infrastructure-as-code pipelines
- Experience in cloud-based infrastructure, familiarity with modern networking concepts and experience managing infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices
- Experience managing and scaling containerized software deployment systems such as Kubernetes
- Experience in Software development in one or more of the general-purpose programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, Java, etc
- Experience in working in high-energy small startup environments
- Knowledge of and expertise in software engineering best practices for software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Ability to communicate effectively with users, technical teams, and management
- Strong problem-solving skills
- The ability to work effectively within a fully remote engineering environment
What the job involves
- We are looking for passionate engineers who are excited to build the identity layer for the internet
- As an Infrastructure Engineer at Persona, you will be responsible for building, operating and monitoring the foundational components upon which our services are built
- You will help empower our engineering organization to deliver product features to our customers rapidly, with high scalability, excellent resilience and cost effectiveness
- Our infrastructure team operates remotely in the United States (with teammates in each time zone!), but commits to visiting our San Francisco HQ once a quarter to work together in person
- Embrace and champion engineering best practices within the product engineering teams
- Work closely with product teams to plan and build scalable, resilient and cost-effective infrastructure systems that meet launch goals, reach new markets and scale with product demand
- Partner with fellow engineering teams to deliver on complex initiatives together
- Develop simple, elegant solutions to complex problems
- You will work in a solution stack that extends all the way from complex back-end data through web services to highly usable web-based user interfaces
- You will be able to directly shape system design, development methodologies, and implementation technologies
Our take
Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, fostering trust in online interactions and aiding in age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailored flows for any use case
Businesses and governmental organizations can access Persona’s platform via an API, which supports various documents from government-issued IDs to biometrics, ensuring customers are who they claim to be. Persona’s platform also collects passive signals such as a user’s device, location, and behavioral patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts
Recently, Persona partnered with Member Driven Technologies (MDT) to enhance identity verification for credit unions. This partnership enables credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time based on risk signals, improving user conversion and fraud deterrence. The collaboration aims to streamline operations and strengthen fraud prevention, both digitally and in branches. Since founding, Persona has been scaling its offerings and now boasts a worldwide presence, serving clients in nearly every country and supporting 20 languages.
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40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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"Everyone who I have met and worked with so far have been intelligent and welcoming, and I feel like I can dive in and ask for help from anyone at..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $217.6m
Company benefits
- Professional Development
- Catered meals
- Wellness benefit
- 401(k)
- Unlimited time off
- Parental benefits
- Mental health
- Health and wellness
- Bevsday (free drink on Wednesday)
- Family planning
Company values
- People first. We will not make decisions that are good for the business but are not good for people — whether those people are our customers, their customers, or our team.
- Pursue relentlessly high standards. We hold ourselves to a high bar today and a higher one tomorrow. While we celebrate our wins, we constantly strive to raise the bar.
- Lead by serving. We share early and often to push our work forward, creating a space where it’s ok to ask questions and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Work in public. We encourage collaboration and transparency, sharing early and often to push our work forward. We create a space that makes others comfortable to ask questions, share unfinished thoughts, and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Start small, think big. Starting small allows us to provide value while learning lessons without losing sight of our vision.
- Speed is not a tradeoff. Speed is important, but so is quality. We strive to find ways to optimize and increase both. Going fast does not imply that our quality will suffer. Instead, it means we focus on being more efficient while continuing to operate at a high level.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Rick Song
(CEO)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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