ID.me

Staff Software Engineer – Trust Service Team

Mountain View, California, United States · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$63k-$800kDetected 20 days ago

JavaCode ReviewRESTOAuthIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

Every downstream access decision at federal agencies, state governments, healthcare organizations, and consumer brands depends on the trust data our service produces.
As a Staff Engineer, you will be the technical anchor for this service.

API Contract & Data Model Stewardship: Own the REST API contracts and inspection data model that downstream services, identity workflows, and product teams depend on.
Lead decisions about versioning strategy, backwards compatibility, and the principles that govern how new inspection types and identity providers are introduced safely.
Setting the standard for code quality, system design, and engineering best practices.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and architectural guidance.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Identity, Authentication, Fraud, Workflow, Platform, and Compliance teams whose products are built on top of the trust chain.
Drive alignment on shared data model decisions and multi-team API changes.
Reliability, Performance & Security: Own the availability and correctness of trust reads and writes at production scale.
Lead initiatives around observability, alert hygiene, query performance, capacity planning, and incident response for a service that downstream teams depend on continuously.
Drive architectural decisions with a long view: make the system more correct, more observable, and easier to evolve without breaking consumers.
Proven ability to own and evolve platform APIs consumed by multiple internal teams - understanding the full lifecycle of a contract from design through versioning and deprecation.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Experience designing and versioning REST APIs and owning the contracts that downstream teams and SDKs depend on.
Proficiency with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) with a commitment to an AI-first engineering culture that maximizes team quality and velocity.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience influencing technical direction across engineering, product, and security stakeholders.

Deep experience with Java or another JVM language, including modern language features applied to production systems.
Familiarity with graph or highly relational data models - entity relationships, traversal patterns, and the tradeoffs between different read/write shapes at scale.
Comfort reasoning about identity trust decisions: what it means for an identity claim to be verified, how different inspection methods vary in reliability, and how temporal decay or expiration affects downstream access.
Experience with identity standards such as NIST 800-63-3, OAuth2, or OpenID Connect, particularly in the context of federal or regulated-industry deployments.
Track record of improving engineering culture through documentation, technical standards, architectural review, and developer experience improvements.
ID.me's technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative.

Company Overview
ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online.
ID.me is committed to "No Identity Left Behind" to enable all people to have a secure digital identity.
To learn more, visit https://network.id.me/.
ID.me is a full-time, in-office culture.

Own the technical vision and architecture for the Trust Service - the data model, the API surface, the query and write patterns, and the operational characteristics of the service at scale.
Experience working in regulated industries such as government, healthcare, or financial services.
Over 152 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 45 state government agencies, and 70+ healthcare organizations.
Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.

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