Staff Software Engineer - Identity Graph & Credentials

ID.me, Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

ID.me, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to join the Biometrics and Credential team in Mountain View, CA.

You will architect and implement services underpinning the identity trust layer, work across identity, verification, and platform teams, and help shape the roadmap with innovative, high-performance graph solutions. You will design, implement, and scale RESTful/GraphQL APIs, build robust data models, ensure security and privacy, and mentor engineers while delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of professional backend services and APIs experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core services and APIs powering Identity Trust Graph.
• Build RESTful and GraphQL endpoints with reliable latency and security.
• Develop data models and storage patterns for credential provenance and relationships (relational/graph DBs).
• Implement graph lifecycle flows (ingestion, validation, enrichment).
• Ensure security and privacy with strong auth, authorization, encryption, and auditing.
• Ship features with maintainable code, tests, and observability instrumentation.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to solve problems and deliver value.
• Mentor junior developers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to system design discussions, reviews, and docs.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability in production.

Skills

Backend development

REST/GraphQL

Neo4j

Cloud & containers

Testing & observability

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree

Tools

Neo4j

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

ID.me, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to join the Biometrics and Credential team in Mountain View, CA.

You will architect and implement services underpinning the identity trust layer, work across identity, verification, and platform teams, and help shape the roadmap with innovative, high-performance graph solutions. You will design, implement, and scale RESTful/GraphQL APIs, build robust data models, ensure security and privacy, and mentor engineers while delivering