Backend Engineer II - Scalable Services & Identity Security

Jackalope Digital LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy. We seek a Backend Software Engineer II to design, build, and operate scalable backend services powering identity verification and fraud prevention.

You will collaborate across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Data Science/ML teams from design through production. You’ll work on backend services, APIs, and microservices, focusing on reliable, secure software and robust observability, while contributing to

Qualifications

• Practical software engineering experience building backend applications or services.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or a comparable backend language.
• Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of asynchronous processing, messaging, retries, fault tolerance, and service-to-service communication.
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka or equivalent technologies.
• Understanding of source control, automated testing, CI/CD, and modern software development practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical problems methodically and take ownership of solutions through production.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate backend services, APIs, and microservices.
• Develop reliable, secure, and maintainable production software.
• Work on distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
• Contribute to technical design and make thoughtful engineering trade-offs.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve system reliability and observability.
• Participate in code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with globally distributed, cross-functional teams to solve customer and business problems.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Go, Java, Python

Data structures & distributed systems

SQL/NoSQL databases

Asynchronous processing and messaging

CI/CD and automated testing

Troubleshooting and ownership

Clear cross-team communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy. We seek a Backend Software Engineer II to design, build, and operate scalable backend services powering identity verification and fraud prevention.

You will collaborate across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Data Science/ML teams from design through production. You’ll work on backend services, APIs, and microservices, focusing on reliable, secure software and robust observability, while contributing to