Senior Backend Engineer - Identity & Security (Remote)

Nametag; Boston (MA); 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

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Flexible paid time off

New computer hardware and equipment

Job summary

Nametag is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale the systems behind its identity verification and account protection platform. This backend-first role owns production services, APIs, database design, authentication flows, and reliability, with senior engineers owning architecture and production outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, design, and leadership on a small team where you own critical components across the stack and contribute to architectural decisions for

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems.
• 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 frontend framework.
• Clear communication and good judgment in a remote, cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs powering identity verification, account recovery, and 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 with idempotency, retries, failure handling, and observability.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and help shape the technical roadmap.
• Partner with product and design to ship secure, usable workflows.
• Build internal tools and dashboards to improve visibility and developer workflows.
• Make clean integration decisions across frontend, backend, and APIs.
• Operate what you build and help drive reliability and deployment.

Skills

Backend judgment

API design

Security-minded engineering

Distributed systems

Remote collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Node.js

Go

Python

Java

Job description

Nametag is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale the systems behind its identity verification and account protection platform. This backend-first role owns production services, APIs, database design, authentication flows, and reliability, with senior engineers owning architecture and production outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, design, and leadership on a small team where you own critical components across the stack and contribute to architectural decisions for