Staff Engineer, Biometrics and Credentials
ID.me · Mountain View, California, United States
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**Company Overview** IDMe is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with IDMe once and seamlessly log in across websites without re-verifying. With over 175 million users and adoption across 22 federal agencies, 50 state government agencies, and 100+ healthcare organizations, IDMe helps organizations build more authentic relationships. IDMe’s technology meets federal standards for consumer authentication and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. **Work Model** This is a full-time, in-office role. Unless otherwise stated, 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. This specific role is based in **Mountain View, CA** with on-site presence required **5 days per week**. --- **About the Role** ID.me is seeking a **Staff Software Development Engineer** to join the **Biometrics and Credential** team. You’ll help build the **Identity Trust Graph**, which represents mappings between entities, attributes, and credentials—enabling use cases such as fraud detection and prevention, duplicate detection and resolution, and more. As a key individual contributor, you’ll architect and implement services that underpin ID.me’s next-generation identity trust layer. You’ll collaborate across identity, verification, and platform teams to deliver a secure, scalable, high-performance graph platform used by millions of users and trusted partners. --- **What You’ll Do** - Design and implement core services and APIs powering the **Identity Trust Graph** (entity/attribute/credential mappings) - Build **RESTful and GraphQL** endpoints with strict reliability, latency, and security requirements - Develop robust data models and storage patterns for credential provenance and entity-attribute relationships across relational and graph databases (including **Neo4j**) - Implement graph lifecycle flows (ingestion, validation, enrichment) integrated with ID.me identity verification and attribute validation systems - Ensure identity data security and privacy via strong authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit practices - Ship features and improvements while balancing legacy maintenance with modern service development - Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to solve the right problems and deliver customer-focused solutions - Mentor junior developers through code reviews, document critiques, and cross-team knowledge sharing - Write high-quality, maintainable, well-tested code with automated tests and observability instrumentation - Contribute to system design discussions, code reviews, and technical documentation - Continuously optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of graph services in production - Stay current on emerging identity/credentialing standards (e.g., Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, OIDC extensions) and bring new ideas to the product --- **What We’re Looking For** - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent experience) - **8+ years** developing backend services and APIs in production environments - **8+ years** experience in at least one backend language: **Python, Go, Java, Ruby, TypeScript, or Rust** (with modern frameworks) - Understanding of **Neo4j/graph databases** and experience contributing to data ingestion an
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