Senior Backend Engineer — Identity & Security Platform (Remote)

Nametag; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Quarterly team offsites

Flexible schedules

Meaningful equity ownership

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Flexible paid time off

New computer hardware

Job summary

Nametag is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale the systems behind its identity verification platform. This backend-first role focuses on production services, APIs, database design, authentication flows, and reliability with a strong emphasis on security.

You will own services, work with product and design on secure user workflows, and mentor peers while contributing to architecture decisions and production incident response. Remote-friendly, US-based.

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.
• Partner with product and design to ship secure, usable customer-facing workflows.
• Build internal tools and dashboards that improve operational visibility and developer workflows.
• Make clean integration decisions across frontend, backend, third-party APIs, and customer systems.
• Operate what you build.
• Debug complex production issues across services, data, infrastructure, and user flows.
• Improve reliability, performance, testing, deployment, and observability.
• Review code, mentor peers, and raise the technical bar across the team.

Skills

Backend languages

API design

Security-minded engineering

PostgreSQL

AWS

Remote collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

Nametag is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale the systems behind its identity verification platform. This backend-first role focuses on production services, APIs, database design, authentication flows, and reliability with a strong emphasis on security.

You will own services, work with product and design on secure user workflows, and mentor peers while contributing to architecture decisions and production incident response. Remote-friendly, US-based.