Senior Software Development Engineer - Fullstack

IDMe; McLean, Mountain View (VA, CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off & PTO policy

Parental leave

Job summary

IDMe seeks a Senior Fullstack Software Development Engineer to join the Person team. You will design and build the systems that define identity, the APIs that serve it, and the unified experience where members manage their data.

As a Senior Engineer, you will help scale the Person platform, ensure security and performance, and own Backend for Frontend APIs, collaborating with design and other teams to keep identity accurate for millions of members and partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years full-stack development experience in production.
• 7+ years backend experience in Python, Go, or Java with modern frameworks.
• 7+ years frontend experience (Angular, React) in production.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of major areas of the Person platform.
• Lead cross-team architectural reviews and design decisions.
• Design and implement end-to-end features across full stack (data model, services, APIs).
• Raise code quality, testing, observability, and incident response standards.
• Champion AI-first engineering practices and help the team adopt these workflows.

Skills

Full-stack development

Backend languages (Python, Go, Java)

Frontend applications (Angular, React)

AI-first engineering practices

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Python

Go

Java

Angular

React

TypeScript

REST/GraphQL APIs

PostgreSQL

Job description

Senior Software Development Engineer - Fullstack

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 login across websites without having to create a new login and verify their identity again. Over 175 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with IDMe at 22 federal agencies, 50 state government agencies, and more than 100 healthcare organizations. Over 600 consumer brands use IDMe to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. IDMe’s technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. IDMe is committed to “No Identity Left Behind” to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. To learn more, visit https://network.id.me/ .

IDMe is a full-time, in-office culture. Unless a specific job description explicitly states otherwise, all 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. Certain roles — such as field-based sales or other remote-by-design positions — may have different work arrangements as noted in their individual postings.

At IDMe, we embrace the thoughtful use of AI tools in our daily work and there are even occasions where we leverage AI in our hiring process. However, during the interview process, we want to understand your individual skills and experiences. Therefore, we have guidelines on how AI can be appropriately used during your application and interviews which can be found here .

Role Overview

IDMe is seeking a Senior Fullstack Software Development Engineer to join the Person team. You'll design and build the systems that define who a person is on IDMe — the canonical record of their identity, the APIs that serve it, and the unified experience where members see and manage it.

As a Senior Engineer, you will play a key role in architecting and scaling the Person platform to ensure it is secure, consistent, and performant across IDMe's ecosystem. You'll partner with design to build the Person experience, and own the Backend for Frontend APIs and services that serve as the source of truth for personal data — working across teams to deliver systems that keep a person's identity accurate and consistent for millions of members and the partners who rely on them.

This position will be based full-time in either our McLean, VA or Mountain View, CA office.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Own the design and implementation of significant areas of the Person platform — the canonical record of a person's identity and the rules governing how it is created, merged, and split. Author and implement UX architecture for the areas you own, contribute to design reviews across the team, and stay hands-on through implementation.
• Cross-Team Influence: Work closely with teams across IDMe to understand how person data is consumed and embedded in their systems to solve real needs. Represent your areas in architectural forums and cross-team planning.
• Systems Design & Architecture: Design and Implement end-to-end of complex, high-impact features across the full stack — from the person data model and services, through Backend for Frontend, APIs, to the unified person experience members interact with.
• Engineering Excellence: Set the standard for code quality, testing, observability, and incident response. Drive technical debt reduction and platform reliability improvements. Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design critiques, and pairing.
• AI-Augmented Development: Model and champion AI-first engineering practices — leveraging tools like Claude Code to accelerate design, implementation, and review cycles — and help the broader team adopt these workflows effectively.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of professional experience developing across the full stack in production environments.
• 7+ years of experience in at least one backend language (Python, Go, or Java) and with modern frameworks.
• 7+ years of professional experience developing frontend applications (Angular, React etc) in production environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building user-facing web applications in a modern frontend stack (TypeScript, React) and the Backend for Frontend APIs behind them.
• Experience with identity resolution or entity matching — deduplication, record merge and split, or data normalization at scale.
• Demonstrated expertise building, documenting, and evolving public-facing REST or GraphQL APIs used by multiple internal and external consumers.
• Deep experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and graph or NoSQL data stores.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts — caching, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS), and cloud-native patterns.
• Experience handling sensitive personal data under privacy and security constraints: encryption, access control, auditability, retention and deletion.
• Experience in regulated or high-assurance domains (government, financial, or healthcare systems).

The annual base salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and role.

IDMe offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.

U.S. Pay Range

$144,000 - $191,000 USD

Mountain View, CA Pay Range

$166,000 - $216,000 USD

IDMe maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All IDMe employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. IDMe does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. IDMe adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, IDMe's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.

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