Software Engineer III at ID.me

Compensation

$172,528 – $201,375/yr

Location: Mountain View, California
Type: Full-time
Posted: Jun 10, 2026

Description

ID.me is looking for a Software Engineer III to join their Trust Service team. This role involves building and operating the core infrastructure for ID.me's identity platform, focusing on a high-throughput, correctness-critical Java backend service. The engineer will design and evolve REST APIs, manage database queries, and contribute to feature development for production-scale systems. Key responsibilities include owning the trust inspection data model, ensuring correctness and reliability, optimizing database performance, and collaborating with various teams.

Required Skills

Java
REST APIs
SQL Queries
PostgreSQL
OpenAPI Specifications
AI-assisted development tooling

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 4+ years of professional software development experience with a strong emphasis on backend service engineering, preferably in Java or another JVM language.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with modern Java (21+) and its type-safety features — records, sealed interfaces, pattern matching — applied to real production codebases.
Familiarity with graph or highly relational data models: understanding entity relationships, traversal patterns, and the tradeoffs of different read/write shapes.
Comfort reasoning about identity and trust decisions: what it means for a credential to be verified, how different verification methods vary in reliability, and how expiration or decay affects downstream trust.
Experience with identity standards such as NIST 800-63-3, OAuth2, or OpenID Connect.
Strong track record of shipping well-tested, production-quality backend features with careful attention to failure modes, rollback safety, and backwards-compatible schema changes.
Startup or high-growth company experience with a strong bias toward ownership and execution.