{"id":804557,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hopae-software-engineer","title":"Software Engineer","company":{"id":679580,"name":"Hopae","domain":"hopae.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/hopae","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Seoul, South Korea"],"countries":["KR"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-18T23:57:55Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-18","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T04:50:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":36,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":36},"description":"About Hopae\nAt Hopae, we're building the world's most trusted digital identity platform - private, secure, and built for real life. We believe identity should be in your control - not locked behind outdated systems or centralized gatekeepers.\nOur product, Hopae Connect, lets businesses verify real people across borders through a single API - no need to build country-by-country integrations themselves. Our technology powers instant, privacy-first verification across fintech, credentials, supply chain, and gaming - for IDV providers, e-signature platforms, and enterprises who need identity to just work, everywhere.\nBacked by top global investors, Hopae operates across Seoul, Paris, Luxembourg, and San Francisco, bringing together exceptional talent from over 10 nationalities. We move fast, think globally, and build products that define the future of identity.\nWhy You’ll Love It Here\nGlobal DNA: Work with exceptional peers across Seoul, Paris, and San Francisco\n\nHigh Impact: Build technology shaping the global trust and identity landscape\n\nOwnership Culture: No micromanagement - full trust, full accountability\n\nElite Standards: Work fast, learn fast, and grow with world-class peers\n\nInclusive & Respectful: 10+ nationalities, diverse perspectives, one vision\n\nGrowth Mindset: Access mentorship, leadership visibility, and continuous learning\n\nWhat You'll Do\nHopae connects businesses to government eIDs and identity systems worldwide through a single platform - across fintech, credentials, supply chain, and gaming. As a Software Engineer at Hopae, you own real problems end to end, across the full stack, in a team where the mission moves fast and the scope is broad by design.\nThis is not a role where you pick a lane and stay in it. You'll work across backend, integrations, infrastructure, and tooling - whatever the product needs. If you thrive in environments where ownership is total and the work is never the same twice, this is for you.\nBuild and scale the core verification platform - API architecture, verification lifecycle, async processing, event delivery, and production reliability\n\nConnect and operate external identity providers - building adapters, normalization layers, health monitoring, and the tooling that makes adding the next provider faster than the last\n\nBuild the infrastructure that takes integrated capabilities to proven in production - developer tooling, E2E test infrastructure, reference environments, and go-live systems\n\nOwn quality end to end - you write the tests, you monitor production, you fix what breaks\n\nInvestigate failures independently, identify root causes, and fix the system rather than the symptom\n\nWork directly with Product, partners, and customers when solving a problem requires it - you're not behind a ticket queue\n\nWho You Are\n2-4 years of software engineering experience - what matters is what you've personally owned and operated\n\nStrong backend fundamentals - comfortable with APIs, distributed systems, async processing, and production reliability; our stack is TypeScript / JavaScript\n\nFull stack in practice - you go where the problem is, whether that's backend, infrastructure, tooling, or frontend when needed\n\nYou own quality: testing, observability, and operational readiness are part of how you work, not someone else's job\n\nHigh ownership, low ego - you drive ambiguous problems to resolution without waiting to be told exactly what to do\n\nThrives in a fast-moving environment where the scope is broad and the mission evolves\n\nBased in Seoul; comfortable working in a global, multicultural, English-first environment\n\nFast Facts\n$13.5M+ raised from top global investors\n\n2.6M+ downloads of our sd-jwt-js library\n\n10+ nationalities across 3 hubs\n\n82 eID research projects completed\n\n3 projects accepted into the OpenWallet Foundation\n\nBenefits & Culture\nUnlimited PTO\n\nRemote-friendly work model\n\nReal ownership from Day 1\n\nHigh-impact, global product\n\nMulticultural, respectful team\n\nInterview Process\nRecruiter Intro Call (30 min) - Get to know Hopae\n\nFunctional or Technical Interview (45 min) - Dive into your skills\n\nCulture Fit Conversation (45 min) - Collaboration & alignment\n\nOffer\n\nNote: The process may vary slightly depending on the role.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4237,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Unlimited PTO"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"South Korea","iso":"KR","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Digital Signature","Information Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-12T09:14:21Z"}],"liveness":{"score":12,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.339,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":36,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hopae-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hopae-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T06:29:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}