Software Engineer, ID.me

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 4+ years of professional software development experience with a strong emphasis on backend service engineering, preferably in Java or another JVM language
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and commitment to an AI-first engineering culture that leverages these tools to maximize code quality, test coverage, and engineering velocity
• Deep comfort with relational databases, writing complex SQL queries, reasoning about query plans, and working within a production database schema
• Experience designing and versioning REST APIs backed by OpenAPI specifications

Desirable

• As a Software Engineer III, you will work on a high-throughput, correctness-critical Java backend service at the heart of ID.me's identity platform
• The work is backend-intensive and data-model-deep: you will design and evolve REST APIs, write precise database queries, and ship features that are used at production scale
• You will be a key technical voice on how the trust data model evolves and how new inspection types, identity providers, and scoring rules land safely in production
• Build & Ship Trust Graph Features: Design, implement, and evolve the Trust Service API end-to-end, from API contract design through database query authoring and production deployment. Independently drive small-to-medium features with minimal oversight, coordinating closely with the Identity, Platform, and consumer-facing product teams that depend on the trust chain
• Data Model & API Contract Ownership: Own the trust inspection data model and the REST API contract that downstream consumers and SDKs bind to. Make deliberate decisions about backwards compatibility, versioning, and the clean separation between public API shape and internal implementation details
• Correctness, Reliability & Performance: Ensure that trust reads and writes are correct under concurrent load. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in database query plans. Own reliability improvements: observability, structured logging, alerting, and on-call response for a service that downstream teams depend on continuously
• Database & Integration Engineering: Write and review complex SQL queries against ID.me's identity graph schema. Collaborate with the platform team when underlying data contracts change, and ensure the trust service stays correctly decoupled from its data dependencies. Understand and navigate PostgreSQL semantics, schema migration risks, and safe deployment patterns
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the Product engineering, Architects and Platform teams, the trust chain feeds risk decisions, audit queries, and downstream access grants. Bring a clear-eyed technical perspective to cross-team planning: surface contract risks early, write precise specs for new inspection types, and hold the line on data-model correctness when product velocity would otherwise cut corners