Identity Engineer Job Description
Recruiting Partner: Anthony Leone
New York, New York | IT | Fully Remote | $115,000 to $135,000 | Job ID: 178364
Job Summary
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An innovative, high-growth technology company is seeking an exceptional Identity Engineer to own and redefine its identity verification platform from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to build a mission-critical product that directly impacts customer onboarding, fraud prevention, and user experience. The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial engineer who thrives on solving complex technical challenges, enjoys building scalable systems from first principles, and is passionate about leveraging emerging technologies to create secure, intelligent identity solutions.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive base salary plus equity opportunity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Flexible paid time off and company holidays.
- Opportunity to own a core product with significant technical autonomy.
- Fast-paced, collaborative environment with exceptional career growth potential.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and own the organization's identity verification platform from architecture through deployment and continuous improvement.
- Build scalable identity verification solutions that improve approval rates while reducing fraud and operational costs.
- Develop in-house authentication, identity verification, OCR, behavioral intelligence, and device fingerprinting capabilities.
- Integrate government databases, identity verification providers, and third-party data sources to enhance verification accuracy.
- Design secure backend services, APIs, and frontend user experiences that support seamless customer onboarding.
- Implement AI-aware fraud detection strategies that address emerging identity and synthetic fraud threats.
- Continuously monitor system performance, optimize verification workflows, and improve automation through data-driven insights.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, compliance, and fraud teams to ensure solutions meet regulatory and business requirements.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field preferred.
- Minimum 2+ years of experience building identity verification, authentication, fraud prevention, or KYC solutions.
- Strong software engineering experience with modern backend development, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-based applications.
- Experience integrating identity verification technologies such as OCR, biometric authentication, document verification, or behavioral analytics.
- Strong understanding of KYC, AML, customer onboarding, fraud detection, and identity verification requirements within regulated industries.
- Experience working with cloud platforms, modern development frameworks, databases, and scalable architectures.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a first-principles approach to system design.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and compliance teams.
JOB ID: 178364
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