Staff SDE — Wallet Authentication & Risk Engine

ID.me, Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

ID.me is hiring a Staff Software Development Engineer for Wallet - Authentication in Mountain View, CA. You will anchor backend and API work for sign-in, registration, MFA, and account management, shaping contracts and scalable services used across federal agencies, states, and healthcare partners.

You will drive secure, low-friction authentication with a focus on real-time risk, distributed systems, and high availability, collaborating with Product, Security, and Design to deliver cohesive

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise building and operating high-availability backend services and APIs.
• Experience leading complex cross-team initiatives and designing secure, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and own authentication services, APIs, and integrations end-to-end.
• Advance the real-time risk engine and adaptive friction in auth flows.
• Define engineering standards, CI/CD, and mentor engineers.
• Partner with Product, Design, Security on cohesive auth experiences.

Skills

Backend development

APIs (REST/GraphQL)

Distributed systems

Security-focused design

Cloud/AWS

AI tooling awareness

Leadership & mentoring

API contracts & documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Go

Scala

Job description

ID.me is hiring a Staff Software Development Engineer for Wallet - Authentication in Mountain View, CA. You will anchor backend and API work for sign-in, registration, MFA, and account management, shaping contracts and scalable services used across federal agencies, states, and healthcare partners.

You will drive secure, low-friction authentication with a focus on real-time risk, distributed systems, and high availability, collaborating with Product, Security, and Design to deliver cohesive