Senior Backend Engineer - Identity & Security Platform

Nametag; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first, US-based team

Quarterly team offsites

Flexible schedules

Meaningful equity ownership

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

Job summary

Nametag is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale our identity verification and account protection platform. This backend-first role owns production services, APIs, database design, authentication flows, and reliability for systems where correctness and security matter.

You will work closely with product, design, and engineering leadership on a small team where senior engineers have real ownership over architecture, implementation, and production outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems.
• Strong experience with backend languages such as Node.js, Go, Python, Java, or similar.
• Experience designing APIs and services used by real customers or high-scale internal systems.
• Strong relational database experience, PostgreSQL preferred, including schema design and query optimization.
• Hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred.
• Familiarity with authentication, authorization, identity, security, or fraud and abuse prevention.
• Comfort working across the stack when needed, ideally with React, Vue, or a similar modern frontend framework.
• Clear communication and good judgment in a remote, cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power identity verification, account recovery, and account protection workflows.
• Own database schema design, migrations, query performance, and data integrity.
• Build and harden authentication, authorization, and data-protection systems.
• Design for correctness under load, including idempotency, safe retries, failure handling, and observability.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and help shape the technical roadmap.

Skills

Backend engineering

Node.js

Go

Python

Java

PostgreSQL

AWS

Security

Frontend basics

Tools

React

Vue

Job description

Nametag is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale our identity verification and account protection platform. This backend-first role owns production services, APIs, database design, authentication flows, and reliability for systems where correctness and security matter.

You will work closely with product, design, and engineering leadership on a small team where senior engineers have real ownership over architecture, implementation, and production outcomes.