Senior Backend Engineer - Data Engineering - Remote

Overview

Socure is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our Digital Intelligence team. This role involves building data platforms and real-time systems that process large-scale device and behavioral data used in identity verification and fraud prevention.

In Short

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to collect, clean, transform, and aggregate large-scale device and behavioral signals.
• Build and support real-time velocity systems that compute session-level and user-level aggregations with sub-second latency.
• Develop and manage data infrastructure such as data lakes and data warehouses.
• Optimize data architectures for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and product stakeholders to ensure data availability, reliability, and privacy compliance.
• Maintain and enhance orchestration workflows; automate workflows and monitoring systems.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and security across systems; implement best practices in data modeling, schema evolution, and pipeline observability.
• Document systems and processes for internal use and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale data systems and pipelines in cloud environments.
• Strong programming experience in Python, Go, or Java.
• Proficiency in SQL.
• Understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, and data warehousing.
• Deep experience with distributed processing frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, and Flink.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including Glue, Kinesis, EMR, Lambda, and DynamoDB.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow or AWS Step Functions.
• Understanding of real-time data processing, event-driven architectures, and stream processing patterns.
• Familiarity with machine learning workflows and data requirements.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer valuing diversity.