Staff Backend Engineer

The role

You will provide technical leadership by designing and implementing complex core components and distributed systems. You will drive the planning and delivery of large initiatives and mentor junior engineers.

What you will do

• Design and implement complex core components and distributed systems
• Architect solutions for scalability, security, modularity, and long-term maintainability
• Conduct code and architecture reviews
• Drive planning, execution, and delivery of large, complex initiatives
• Coordinate work across a small team of engineers
• Manage scope, timelines, and resources
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers
• Support system design efforts
• Propose new projects to enhance platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity
• Evolve engineering practices and standards

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven experience leading complex, large-scale engineering projects
• Expert-level programming skills and mastery of software engineering principles
• Strong experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems
• Ability to develop complex systems while guiding architectural decisions for a team
• Deep understanding of system design, performance optimization, and reliability

About the company

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