Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Remote

Overview

At Socure, we’re on a mission—to verify 100% of good identities in real time and eliminate identity fraud from the internet. Using predictive analytics and advanced machine learning trained on billions of signals to power RiskOS™, Socure has created the most accurate identity verification and fraud prevention platform in the world.

In Short

• Lead architecture and development of high-performance, cloud-native Entity Resolution APIs.
• Design and implement batch and streaming data pipelines using tools like Kafka, SQS, and Spark.
• Build and maintain low-latency search APIs powered by ElasticSearch or Vespa.
• Collaborate with data scientists to integrate and deploy ranking models.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of applications deployed on Kubernetes.
• Conduct performance tuning and debugging of search systems.
• Develop tools and metrics to benchmark search quality.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable solutions.
• Lead design discussions for backend services incorporating model inference.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Expertise in search technologies like ElasticSearch or Vespa.
• Strong cloud-native experience, especially with AWS services.
• Proven ability to design and maintain distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes-based application development.
• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (Java, Scala, Go, Python).
• Experience deploying machine learning models into production.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL and Graph databases.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer valuing diversity.