ID.me is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer – Credential API to design and build the foundation of our credentialing platform — the API that issues, retrieves, and manages validated credential bundles (e.g., verified passport, driver’s license, validated domain, verified face) for both people and organizations.
Requirements
- Design and implement the Credential API and its core services that issue, fetch, and manage credential attribute bundles for entities such as Person or Organization.
- Build RESTful and GraphQL endpoints that meet strict standards for reliability, latency, and security, and integrate seamlessly with both internal and external systems.
- Develop robust data models and storage patterns to represent credential provenance and relationships across relational and graph databases.
- Implement credential lifecycle flows — including creation, validation, renewal, and revocation — integrated with ID.me’s identity verification and attribute validation systems (AVS, face, domain validation, etc.).
- Ensure the security and privacy of credential data through strong authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit practices.
- Collaborate closely with Platform, Identity, Security, and Partner Engineering teams to deliver end-to-end features and integrations.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code, including automated tests and observability instrumentation.
- Contribute to system design discussions, code reviews, and technical documentation to drive clarity and alignment across teams.
- Continuously optimize performance, scalability, and reliability for credential services in production environments.
- Stay current on emerging identity and credentialing standards (e.g., Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, OIDC extensions) and bring new ideas into the product.
Benefits
- 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.
