Senior Software Engineer - Developer Portal

Role Overview

ID.me is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (SDE-IV) to join the Developer Portal team, where we're building the self-service platform that enables organizations to rapidly integrate trusted identity verification.

Identity proofing is fundamentally complex and integrating an identity proofing flow requires many steps while meeting standard bodies assurance requirements.

The Developer Portal at ID.me is the product that brings the pieces together for the external developer.

Today, much of that onboarding is still performed manually through in-house Solutions Consultants that have many other responsibilities. Our mission is to enable customers and their developers to register their application, configure their identity needs, test in a production-like sandbox, and launch to production—all through a modern self-service experience.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own a significant portion of that platform end-to-end. You'll independently drive medium-to-large initiatives from ambiguous problem definition through production, serve as the technical owner for the systems you build, and help define the future of how developers integrate with ID.me.

You'll work across a modern micro-frontend platform built with Next.js and React, alongside Java backend other legacy services (mostly Ruby) powering identity, organizations, applications, authorization, and developer APIs. Previous Java and Ruby experience is welcome but not required—we value engineers who are comfortable learning whatever technology the problem requires.

This position is based in our Mountain View, CA office five days per week.

Key Responsibilities

Build Self-Service Developer Experiences

Design, build, and operate the experiences that allow customers to onboard themselves to the ID.me platform. Take loosely defined problems, collaborate with Product and Design to clarify requirements, and independently deliver production-ready solutions from design through launch.

Own the Developer Experience

Treat time first successful self-service onboarding, that results first time successful verification by their customers, as the team's north-star metric

Build Platform Infrastructure

Extend the platform powering the Developer Portal, including:

Micro-frontends

Micro-service backends

Shared UI component libraries

Feature-flag driven migrations

Versioned API contracts for our customers

Authentication, Authorization & Identity

Build secure Developer Portal capabilities, including:

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

Enterprise SSO

Multi-tenant authorization

Relationship-based access control

Session management

Credential management

Identity-aware application provisioning

Partner closely with our Identity, Organizations, Authorization, and Platform Engineering teams to evolve these capabilities without disrupting existing integrations.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

6+ years of professional software development experience building and operating production web applications. [Less for PHD, Masters]

3+ years of experience building developer-facing platforms such as developer portals, API platforms, authentication platforms, cloud platforms, payments platforms, or other self-service developer experiences.

3+ years of experience with TypeScript, React, and modern frontend architecture, including production experience with Next.js or similar frameworks and operating backend services using modern web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java, or similar.

Proficiency with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and a commitment to an AI-first engineering culture that leverages these tools to improve software quality, testing, and engineering velocity.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with OpenAPI, docs-as-code tooling, or SDK generation.

Hands-on experience implementing authentication and authorization systems using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or related identity standards.

Demonstrated experience independently driving medium-to-large technical initiatives from definition through production while making sound architectural tradeoffs.

Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience partnering across Product, Design, and Engineering.

Experience with Webpack Module Federation or similar micro-frontend architectures.

Understanding of runtime dependency sharing, singleton libraries, version compatibility, and independently deployed frontend applications.

Experience with enterprise identity standards including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, or SCIM.

Experience with relationship-based authorization systems such as SpiceDB, OpenFGA, or Zanzibar-inspired architectures.

Experience with policy engines such as OPA, or Cedar.

Familiarity with identity verification, fraud prevention, KYC/AML, or regulated identity systems.

Working knowledge of NIST 800-63 IAL/AAL guidelines.

Experience with Ruby on Rails

Experience with Java (Spring Boot or similar)

Experience with PostgreSQL.

Experience performing feature-flag-driven migrations in customer-facing production systems.

Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and cloud-native application development.

Experience with observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Prometheus, and Sentry.

Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Playwright, Jest, or Cypress.

About ID.me

ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers verify their identity once and seamlessly sign in across websites without creating new accounts or repeatedly proving who they are.

More than 152 million members use ID.me across 20 federal agencies, 45 state government agencies, 70+ healthcare organizations, and over 600 consumer brands. ID.me is a NIST 800-63 IAL2/AAL2-certified Credential Service Provider and is committed to our mission of No Identity Left Behind, ensuring every individual has access to a secure, privacy-preserving digital identity.

At ID.me, we embrace AI-assisted software development as a core part of how we build products, while maintaining the engineering rigor, security, and quality required to earn and preserve trust at internet scale.

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.

ID.me 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.

Mountain View, CA Pay Range

$190,978—$221,668 USD