Software Engineer -II

The role

A Software Engineer II will build and own backend services, REST APIs, and microservices. You will develop scalable, secure, and maintainable application-layer systems and work on distributed systems.

What you will do

• Build and own backend services, REST APIs, and microservices from design through production
• Develop scalable, secure, and maintainable application-layer systems
• Work on distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, messaging, retries, and fault tolerance
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Data Science/ML, and Engineering teams
• Improve performance, reliability, observability, and engineering standards
• Participate in technical design, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and production troubleshooting

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
• Experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or a similar backend language
• Solid computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Experience with REST APIs, microservices, SQL/NoSQL databases, and event-driven systems
• Familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka/SQS/RabbitMQ, and CI/CD
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to take features/services end-to-end
• Good communication skills and ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs clearly

About the company

Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy. The company verifies identities in real time to stop fraud.