Staff Software Engineer

1 Day ago • 8 Years + • $180,000 PA - $210,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Backend Software Engineer, you will lead backend technical aspects, drive operational excellence, and build scalable architecture. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and owning scalable backend systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Data Science to build document verification products. The role involves mentoring engineers, shaping engineering culture, and leading the full development lifecycle of backend components. You'll also champion high-quality releases and participate in on-call rotations.
Must have:
  • 8+ years of backend software engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in backend languages like Java or Go.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, etc.).
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and data modeling.
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools.
  • Experience with CI/CD and test automation.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Demonstrated success in a Staff or Lead Engineer role.
Good to have:
  • Experience with event-driven or asynchronous systems.
  • Experience in regulated environments or security-conscious domains.
  • Background in ML/AI integration in backend services.
  • Contributions to operational excellence through incident management.
  • Deep familiarity with observability practices.
Perks:
  • Market competitive salary
  • Equity
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Commissions plans or an annual discretionary performance bonus

Job Details

Predictive analytics and machine learning power Socure’s groundbreaking technology and fuel our mission to verify 100% of good identities in real time and completely eliminate identity fraud on the internet.

Socure is the world leader in digital identity verification and fraud prevention. Our recent awards include Forbes 2022 America’s Best Startup Employers, The Forbes Cloud 100, The Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and Inc. 5000’s fastest growing companies.

Listen to why some of the world’s top technology investors see the enormous, transformative potential in Socure’s mission and products:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifM9_jPQCv8

Overview

We are looking for an exceptional Staff Backend Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. This is a high-impact role focused on backend technical leadership, operational excellence, and scalable architecture. As a Staff Engineer, you will drive key initiatives that improve the reliability, performance, and extensibility of our systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Data Science to build best-in-class document verification products. This is a critical leadership role for someone who is deeply technical, highly collaborative, and passionate about raising the bar for engineering excellence.

Role and Responsibilities

  • Backend Technical Leadership: Design, implement, and own scalable, reliable backend systems. Set direction for backend architecture, advocate for engineering best practices, and lead complex technical initiatives across teams.

  • Operational Excellence: Define and drive strategies to improve system reliability, observability, scalability, and maintainability. Proactively identify and address bottlenecks in performance, latency, and infrastructure.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Management, Frontend/Mobile Engineering, Computer Vision, Infrastructure, and Data Science teams to deliver impactful solutions that meet business and customer needs.

  • Mentorship & Engineering Culture: Act as a mentor and technical advisor for engineers across levels. Help shape our engineering culture by fostering a high-performance, collaborative, and inclusive environment.

  • Delivery Ownership: Lead the full development lifecycle of backend components — from ideation, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

  • Production Stewardship: Champion high-quality releases, participate in the on-call rotation, and drive post-incident reviews and long-term solutions to recurring issues.

  • Strategic Impact: Bring a customer-centric and systems-thinking mindset to decision-making. Influence the direction of the platform and backend stack in alignment with company goals and product vision.

Required Qualifications 

  • Educational Background: BS or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

  • Experience: 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and delivering large-scale backend systems.

  • Technical Expertise: Proficiency in backend languages such as Java or Go, and familiarity with cloud-native technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, SQL/NoSQL databases, etc.).

  • Architecture & Systems Design: Deep understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, service-oriented architecture, and performance tuning at scale.

  • Operational Rigor: Strong experience with monitoring, alerting, and reliability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Sentry), and improving SLAs and system resilience.

  • DevOps & SDLC: Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and test automation. Passion for improving deployment workflows and reducing manual toil.

  • Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and align across teams and stakeholders.

  • Leadership: Demonstrated success in a Staff or Lead Engineer role, mentoring engineers and driving broad technical initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with event-driven architectures, stream processing, or asynchronous systems using technologies like SQS or Kafka.

  • Experience in regulated environments or security-conscious domains (e.g., fraud detection, identity verification, fintech).

  • Background in ML/AI integration in backend services or experience supporting Computer Vision or model-serving pipelines in production.

  • Contributions to operational excellence through incident management processes, blameless retrospectives, or SRE practices.

  • Deep familiarity with observability practices, including distributed tracing, logging, metrics, and dashboards

Salary Disclosure:

Base Salary range: $180,000 - $210,000

This represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on factors including geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other job related factors. Socure's compensation and rewards package for full time roles includes a market competitive salary, equity,  comprehensive benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans or an annual discretionary performance bonus. 

Socure is all about encouraging people to push the boundaries of what’s possible through top-tier performance, innovation, ownership, and shared expertise.

We empower excellence by providing great perks and benefits to both our fully remote employees in North America and our hybrid teams in India.

To learn more, check out Socure’s Career Page: https://www.socure.com/company/careers

Socure is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

To learn more about how our work is changing the world, check out these articles and videos:

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Services Agreement, we will not consider, or agree to, payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event that a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.

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About The Company

Socure is the leading platform for digital identity verification and trust. Its predictive analytics platform applies artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, phone, address, IP, device, velocity, and the broader internet to verify identities in real time. The company has more than 2,000 customers across the financial services, government, gaming, healthcare, telecom, and e-commerce industries, including four of the top five banks, seven of the top 10 card issuers, three of the top MSBs, the top payroll provider, the top credit bureau, the top online gaming operator, the top Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) providers, and over 250 of the largest fintechs. Marquee customers include Chime, SoFi, Varo, Robinhood, Public, Stash, Gusto, and DraftKings. Socure customers have become investors in the company including Citi Ventures, Capital One Ventures, MVB Bank, and Synchrony. Additional investors include Accel, T. Rowe Price, Bain Capital Ventures, Tiger Global, Commerce Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Sorenson, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, and others.


Socure has received numerous industry awards and accolades, including named to the 2021 & 2022 Forbes Cloud 100 List, Forbes’ Fintech 50 List 2021, and Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers 2021, being named to CB Insights: The Fintech 250 for the third year in a row, being awarded Best New Technology Introduced Over the Last 12 Months—Data and Data Services at the 2020 American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs), being ranked number 70 in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, being listed as a Gartner Cool Vendor, being recognized by Forbes as one of the Top 25 Machine Learning Startups to Watch, being awarded Finovate’s Award for Best Use of AI/ML, to name a few. Founder/CEO Johnny Ayers has also been recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2021 and as an EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022.

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