# Staff Software Engineer – Trust Service Team at ID.me

- Company: ID.me
- Company website: https://www.id.me
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/idme/jobs/7767413003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/id-me-staff-software-engineer-trust-service-team/

## About the role

ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly login across websites without having to create a new login and verify their identity again. Over 152 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 45 state government agencies, and 70+ healthcare organizations.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating high-availability, correctness-critical backend services
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from definition through delivery with minimal oversight
- Deep comfort with relational databases — designing schemas, writing complex queries, reasoning about query performance, and managing safe schema evolution in production
- Experience designing and versioning REST APIs and owning the contracts that downstream teams and SDKs depend on
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) with a commitment to an AI-first engineering culture that maximizes team quality and velocity

Tags: Engineering