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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Decisioning)
$230K–$290K
Remote US · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads technical strategy and delivery for backend identity systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning in markets outside North America.
What you'll do
- Set the team’s technical strategy and guide delivery of business-critical projects.
- Partner with product, design, and analytics teams to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
- Own operational readiness and quality, including availability, monitoring, on-call processes, code review standards, and talent development.
What they ask for
- 8+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages such as Python or Kotlin.
- Extensive track record building highly available distributed systems.
- Experience planning and delivering major features or system components, or deprecating existing functionality.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
Pay
$230,000 - $290,000 USD base salary; $204,00 - $264,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes
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