Socure
Senior Software Engineer - Backend (DocV)
$180K–$200K
Remote - USA +3 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jan 28, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
Hybrid - Seattle, WA
Hybrid - New York, NY - Experience
- 5+ years building and shipping modern backend services or distributed systems at scale.
About the job
Build and maintain backend services and APIs for Socure’s document verification workflows, integrating machine-learning capabilities and supporting identity verification at scale.
What you'll do
- Develop scalable, secure backend services and APIs for document processing and verification.
- Own backend architecture and improve service performance, reliability, security, testing, and deployment practices.
- Integrate machine-learning and computer-vision outputs into verification workflows and collaborate across product, data science, infrastructure, and client-side teams.
What they ask for
- Advanced proficiency in backend programming languages such as GoLang, Java, or Scala, with experience building APIs and microservices.
- Hands-on experience developing gRPC and RESTful APIs and server-side business logic.
- Experience building scalable, high-availability backend services or distributed systems, including designing for fault tolerance and low latency.
- Understanding of performance optimization and backend security, particularly when handling sensitive data (PII).
Nice to have
- Experience in identity verification, fraud prevention, or related domains.
- Familiarity with ML/CV integration, AWS, GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, Kafka, or Spark.
Pay
USD $180K – $200K base salary
Tools
GoLang, Java, Scala, gRPC, RESTful APIs, AWS, GCP, Docker/Kubernetes
AI focus
Integrate machine-learning and computer-vision models into document verification pipelines, incorporating outputs such as OCR results and face-match scores into backend decisioning.
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