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Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly login across websites without having to create a new login and verify their identity again. 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. More than 600+ consumer brands use ID.me to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. 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. 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/.\nID.me is a full-time, in-office culture. Unless a specific job description explicitly states otherwise, all roles are on-site five days per week at one of our offices in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL. Certain roles - such as field-based sales or other remote-by-design positions - may have different work arrangements as noted in their individual postings.\nAt ID.me, we embrace the thoughtful use of AI tools in our daily work and there are even occasions where we leverage AI in our hiring process. However, during the interview process, we want to understand your individual skills and experiences. Therefore, we have guidelines on how AI can be appropriately used during your application and interviews which can be found here.\nRole Overview\nID.me is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (SDE-IV) to join the Developer Portal team, where we're building the self-service platform that enables organizations to rapidly integrate trusted identity verification.\nIdentity proofing is fundamentally complex and integrating an identity proofing flow requires many steps while meeting standard bodies assurance requirements.\nThe Developer Portal at ID.me is the product that brings the pieces together for the external developer.\nToday, much of that onboarding is still performed manually through in-house Solutions Consultants that have many other responsibilities. Our mission is to enable customers and their developers to register their application, configure their identity needs, test in a production-like sandbox, and launch to production-all through a modern self-service experience.\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you will own a significant portion of that platform end-to-end. You'll independently drive medium-to-large initiatives from ambiguous problem definition through production, serve as the technical owner for the systems you build, and help define the future of how developers integrate with ID.me.\nYou'll work across a modern micro-frontend platform built with Next.js and React, alongside Java backend other legacy services (mostly Ruby) powering identity, organizations, applications, authorization, and developer APIs. Previous Java and Ruby experience is welcome but not required-we value engineers who are comfortable learning whatever technology the problem requires.\nThis position is based in our Mountain View, CA office five days per week.\nKey Responsibilities\nBuild Self-Service Developer Experiences\nDesign, build, and operate the experiences that allow customers to onboard themselves to the ID.me platform. Take loosely defined problems, collaborate with Product and Design to clarify requirements, and independently deliver production-ready solutions from design through launch.\nOwn the Developer Experience\nTreat time first successful self-service onboarding, that results first time successful verification by their customers,as the team's north-star metric\nBuild Platform Infrastructure\nExtend the platform powering the Developer Portal, including:\nMicro-frontends\nMicro-service backends\nShared UI component libraries\nFeature-flag driven migrations\nVersioned API contracts for our customers\nAuthentication, Authorization & Identity\nBuild secure Developer Portal capabilities, including:\nOAuth 2.0\nOpenID Connect\nEnterprise SSO\nMulti-tenant authorization\nRelationship-based access control\nSession management\nCredential management\nIdentity-aware application provisioning\nPartner closely with our Identity, Organizations, Authorization, and Platform Engineering teams to evolve these capabilities without disrupting existing integrations.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\n6+ years of professional software development experience building and operating production web applications. [Less for PHD, Masters]\n3+ years of experience building developer-facing platforms such as developer portals, API platforms, authentication platforms, cloud platforms, payments platforms, or other self-service developer experiences.\n3+ years of experience with TypeScript, React, and modern frontend architecture, including production experience with Next.js or similar frameworks and operating backend services using modern web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java, or similar.\nProficiency with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and a commitment to an AI-first engineering culture that leverages these tools to improve software quality, testing, and engineering velocity.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with OpenAPI, docs-as-code tooling, or SDK generation.\nHands-on experience implementing authentication and authorization systems using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or related identity standards.\nDemonstrated experience independently driving medium-to-large technical initiatives from definition through production while making sound architectural tradeoffs.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills with experience partnering across Product, Design, and Engineering.\nExperience with Webpack Module Federation or similar micro-frontend architectures.\nUnderstanding of runtime dependency sharing, singleton libraries, version compatibility, and independently deployed frontend applications.\nExperience with enterprise identity standards including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, or SCIM.\nExperience with relationship-based authorization systems such as SpiceDB, OpenFGA, or Zanzibar-inspired architectures.\nExperience with policy engines such as OPA, or Cedar.\nFamiliarity with identity verification, fraud prevention, KYC/AML, or regulated identity systems.\nWorking knowledge of NIST 800-63 IAL/AAL guidelines.\nExperience with Ruby on Rails\nExperience with Java (Spring Boot or similar)\nExperience with PostgreSQL.\nExperience performing feature-flag-driven migrations in customer-facing production systems.\nFamiliarity with Google Cloud Platform and cloud-native application development.\nExperience with observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Prometheus, and Sentry.\nExperience with automated testing frameworks such as Playwright, Jest, or Cypress.\nAbout ID.me\nID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers verify their identity once and seamlessly sign in across websites without creating new accounts or repeatedly proving who they are.\nMore than 152 million members use ID.me across 20 federal agencies, 45 state government agencies, 70+ healthcare organizations, and over 600 consumer brands. ID.me is a NIST 800-63 IAL2/AAL2-certified Credential Service Provider and is committed to our mission of No Identity Left Behind, ensuring every individual has access to a secure, privacy-preserving digital identity.\nAt ID.me, we embrace AI-assisted software development as a core part of how we build products, while maintaining the engineering rigor, security, and quality required to earn and preserve trust at internet scale.\nThe annual base salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and role. \nID.me offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.\nFinal offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.\nMountain View, CA Pay Range\n$190,978—$221,668 USD\nID.me maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All ID.me employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. ID.me does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. ID.me adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, ID.me's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.\nPlease review our Privacy Policy, including our CCPA policy, at id.me/privacy. 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