engineering
Posted Dec 4, 2025Software Engineer - II
at Socure
United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- What You’ll Do: - Develop and maintain scalable backend services: Design, build, and support robust, scalable, and secure backend services and APIs for identity document processing and verification.
- Ensure systems are reliable and performant at high scale. - Cross-functional collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Data Science/Machine Learning, and Infrastructure teams to deliver new document verification features. Translate product
- Design systems for scalability, resiliency, and seamless integration with other Socure services. - Optimize performance and reliability: Analyze production metrics and real-world usage data to continuously refine system performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Identify bottlenecks and proactively lead initiatives to optimize response times and uptime. - Integrate ML/CV capabilities: Collaborate with data scientists to integrate machine learning and computer vision components into the DocV backend pipeline.
- Ensure the successful deployment and utilization of document verification models and decision logic. - Collaborate with frontend/mobile teams: Work closely with frontend and mobile engineers to define clear API contracts, deliver a seamless end-to-end user experience, and support effective use of backend services.
Requirements
- You’ll develop critical microservices and APIs responsible for document capture, processing, and verification—integrating with advanced machine learning models to ensure ID authenticity and detect fraud.
- requirements and ML model outputs into efficient backend solutions within an agile environment. - Improve code quality and practices: Champion best practices in coding, code review, testing coverage, performance optimizations, security, and CI/CD for DocV backend systems, driving enhancements in reliability and maintainability. - Own backend architecture: Take ownership of backend architectural decisions, championing best practices in API design, microservice architecture, and secure data handling.
- experience building and shipping modern backend services or distributed systems at scale, with a proven track record of delivering backend software in fast-paced environments. - Programming skills: Strong proficiency with backend programming languages (especially Golang) and frameworks for building APIs and microservices. Hands-on
- experience developing gRPC and RESTful APIs and implementing server-side business logic. - Scalable systems expertise: Proven
- experience designing and developing scalable, high-availability microservices and APIs in cloud environments, with an understanding of fault tolerance and low latency requirements. - Performance & security: Solid understanding of backend performance optimization and security best practices, especially when handling sensitive data (PII).
Experience
- Experience: 3+ years of
Contact
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Additional details
- WHY SOCURE? Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy — verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts.
- The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is felt by businesses, governments, and millions of people every day.
- We hire people who want that level of responsibility.
- People who move fast, think critically, act like owners, and care deeply about solving customer problems with precision.
- If you want predictability or narrow scope, this won’t be your place.
- If you want to help build the future of identity with a team that holds a high bar for itself — keep reading.
- About the Role As a Software Engineer on Socure’s Document Verification (DocV) team, you will play a key role in building and enhancing the core server-side components that power large-scale identity verification.
- Your contributions will enable millions of users to verify their identities quickly and securely, strengthening Socure’s reputation for trust, speed, and security.
- Assist with integration troubleshooting as needed. What You Bring: -
- Skilled in profiling services, optimizing queries, and securing data in transit and at rest. - Team collaboration: Track record of collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, data scientists, and product stakeholders.