Senior Backend Engineer, Socure
Data Engineering
$170-185k
+ Equity
Digital ID verification & fraud protection
Be an early applicant
Digital ID verification & fraud protection
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-185k
+ 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
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale data systems and pipelines in cloud environments
- Strong programming experience in Python, Go, or Java
- Proficiency in SQL
- Understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, and data warehousing
- Deep experience with distributed processing frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, and Flink
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including Glue, Kinesis, EMR, Lambda, and DynamoDB
- Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow or AWS Step Functions
- Understanding of real-time data processing, event-driven architectures, and stream processing patterns
- Familiarity with machine learning workflows and data requirements
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
Desirable
- Experience building velocity systems and/or behavioral signal aggregators
- Familiarity with real-time analytics or OLAP engines such as Druid, ClickHouse, or in-memory stores like Redis
- Exposure to data quality frameworks, testing strategies, and pipeline observability tools
- Experience working in fraud detection, risk scoring, or identity verification domains
- Strong system design and infrastructure optimization skills in high-scale environments
What the job involves
- Socure is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our Digital Intelligence team
- This role involves building data platforms and real-time systems that process large-scale device and behavioral data used in identity verification and fraud prevention
- You will be responsible for the design and optimization of batch and streaming pipelines, with a focus on velocity computation and real-time aggregation frameworks
- This role is dedicated to the Digital Intelligence team and will support our engineers and data scientists by ensuring data is clean, accessible, and ready for analysis, modeling, and real-time decision-making
- You'll design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to collect, clean, transform, and aggregate large-scale device and behavioral signals
- Build and support real-time velocity systems that compute session-level and user-level aggregations with sub-second latency
- Develop and manage data infrastructure such as data lakes and data warehouses
- Optimize data architectures for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and maintainability
- Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and product stakeholders to ensure data availability, reliability, and privacy compliance
- Maintain and enhance orchestration workflows; automate workflows and monitoring systems
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and security across systems; implement best practices in data modeling, schema evolution, and pipeline observability
- Document systems and processes for internal use and compliance
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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