Senior Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Trust

About Our Client:

This organization operates in the financial technology sector, focusing on providing earned wage access services to individuals living paycheck to paycheck. It addresses the challenge of financial inflexibility by offering products that enable real-time access to earned wages without fees, interest, or credit checks. The organization partners with leading investors and maintains a solid core business with significant growth potential.

About the Opportunity:

The SENIOR STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER - IDENTITY & TRUST will lead the development and evolution of a critical platform that ensures secure and trustworthy customer access and onboarding across the organization’s consumer and enterprise services. This role is essential in shaping the platform's strategy, architecture, and operational standards, directly impacting customer security, privacy, and fraud prevention.

Responsibilities:

• Define technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for the Identity & Trust platform.
• Lead complex, multi-team initiatives from conception to long-term operation.
• Design secure, resilient distributed systems and APIs with a focus on privacy and regulatory compliance.
• Architect solutions for authentication, authorization, identity verification, and data protection.
• Develop reusable patterns and standards to enable secure platform consumption across teams.
• Establish operational excellence including reliability, observability, and incident response.
• Guide adoption of AI-driven engineering workflows with appropriate security and operational guardrails.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across organizations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical strategies with business and regulatory requirements.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with progression to senior technical leadership.
• Proven ability to define and implement strategies for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading architecture and delivery across multiple engineering teams.
• Hands-on expertise in designing secure, highly available backend systems.
• Deep knowledge of identity, trust, security, and privacy in regulated data environments.
• Understanding of authentication/authorization protocols including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, MFA.
• Experience with trust domains such as KYC, fraud prevention, PII tokenization, encryption, and secure document processing.
• Familiarity with identity platforms like Okta, Auth0, or Keycloak.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, C#, Go, Kotlin, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

Pay Range and Compensation Package:

• The base salary range for this full-time position is $238,660 to $341,000 plus equity and benefits.
• The salary is determined by role, level, and location.
• This position is remote.

Equal Opportunity Statement: Our client is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.

Note:

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