Senior Software Development Engineer - Shopping Graph

Key Responsibilities

Platform Development

• Implement and maintain Merchant, Resource, Discount, and UseCase API endpoints as core primitives of the Commerce Platform.
• Build reliable, well-tested backend services that support both internal applications and external developers.
• Contribute to an API-first, platform-first codebase ensuring services are scalable, extensible, and secure.

Developer Experience

• Partner with the Developer Experience team to deliver intuitive onboarding flows for external merchants and developers.
• Write clear API documentation and contribute to developer-facing resources that enable easy integration.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work with the Authentication Platform, Organization Platform, Marketplace Apps, and Identity Graph teams to ensure consistency across ID.me’s ecosystem.
• Drive adoption of best practices in distributed system design, observability, reliability engineering, and modern DevOps tooling.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to team standards and engineering excellence.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in backend software engineering, including API development for customer-facing products.
• 5+ years of experience in one or more modern languages such as Java, Ruby, Go, or Python, with experience building RESTful APIs and distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of API design, versioning strategies, and contract-first development practices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP), infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform), and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of identity and access management standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or SAML.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, or similar.
• Experience building high-reliability systems with a focus on performance, fault tolerance, and operational excellence.
• Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS architectures or identity-powered commerce platforms.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, unlimited paid time off, 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.