Software Engineer, Persona
iOS / Android
$130-220k
Competitive equity
Identity verification infrastructure solution
Job no longer available
Identity verification infrastructure solution
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130-220k
Competitive equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To humanize online identity by helping companies verify that their users are who they say they are.
Role
Who you are
- Experience - 2+ years of mobile software engineering experience at a fast-moving technology company
- Mobile expertise - In depth knowledge of native UI frameworks (UIKit / XML Views), build systems (Xcode / Gradle), concurrent programming models (GCD / Coroutines), native camera frameworks (AVFoundation / CameraX), and native vision frameworks (Vision / MLKit)
- Relentless debugging - You’re driven to uncover the root cause of every issue. End-user and customer reports aren’t just tickets—they’re challenges you’re determined to solve
- Product mindedness - You build products in a way that maximizes value while minimizing complexity. You can take something ambiguous and turn it into something concrete and built for scale
- Innovative mindset - You go beyond implementing what is tasked and make product suggestions and features that help push our product forward. You are naturally curious and embrace change
- Independent thinking - You learn from your mistakes quickly, and know how to unblock yourself when needed. You give yourself agency to take on new problems and drive them to impactful solutions
- Collaborative spirit - Collaboration isn’t just a buzzword for you, it’s your secret to success. You leverage the diverse perspectives of your teammates and sometimes go out of your way to learn other functions to get the job done
What the job involves
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and business teams on a small but high-impact team of mobile engineers
- Your work will contribute to numerous top 100 apps across the App Store and Google Play Store by delivering high-performance, developer-friendly mobile SDKs that power identity verification at scale
- You’ll play a pivotal role on some of the most strategic initiatives for our business and make an impact on the future of online identity
- Leverage native mobile technologies to design, build, and ship best-in-class products. This may include full stack ownership to ensure seamless end-to-end user experience
- Collaborate with product and design teams across our platform, and sometimes even customers, to define requirements and build solutions
- Iterate quickly with small, progressive, and adaptive contributions
- Design and maintain developer-friendly SDKs that prioritize simplicity, clarity, and seamless integration
- Ensure efficient compilation, dependency management, and minimal binary size for performance-critical applications
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 behavioural patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts.
An impressive partnership with MDT saw Persona enable credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time, strengthening fraud prevention. The company continues to attract funding which supports the scaling of its offerings and reach. In fact, in 2025, it reached a $2 billion valuation, which showcases the success it has had.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$200m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $417.6m
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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rick Song
(CEO & Co-founder)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO & Co-founder)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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