Senior Software Engineer

Job description

## 🌍 **About Hopae** At **Hopae**, we're building the world's most trusted digital identity platform — private, secure, and built for real life. We believe identity should be in your control — not locked behind outdated systems or centralized gatekeepers. Our product, Hopae Connect, lets businesses verify real people across borders through a single API — no need to build country-by-country integrations themselves. Our technology powers instant, privacy-first verification across fintech, credentials, supply chain, and gaming — for IDV providers, e-signature platforms, and enterprises who need identity to just work, everywhere. Backed by top global investors, Hopae operates across **Seoul, Paris, Luxembourg, and San Francisco**, bringing together exceptional talent from over 10 nationalities. We move fast, think globally, and build products that define the future of identity. ## 💡 Why You’ll Love It Here - **Global DNA:** Work with exceptional peers across Seoul, Paris, and San Francisco - **High Impact:** Build technology shaping the global trust and identity landscape - **Ownership Culture:** No micromanagement — full trust, full accountability - **Elite Standards:** Work fast, learn fast, and grow with world-class peers - **Inclusive & Respectful:** 10+ nationalities, diverse perspectives, one vision - **Growth Mindset:** Access mentorship, leadership visibility, and continuous learning ## 🎯 What You'll Do Hopae connects businesses to government eIDs and identity systems worldwide through a single platform — across fintech, credentials, supply chain, and gaming. As a Senior Software Engineer at Hopae, you own real problems end to end, across the full stack, in a team where the mission moves fast and the scope is broad by design. This is not a role where you pick a lane and stay in it. You'll work across backend, integrations, infrastructure, and tooling — whatever the product needs. If you thrive in environments where ownership is total and the work is never the same twice, this is for you. - Build and scale the core verification platform — API architecture, verification lifecycle, async processing, event delivery, and production reliability - Connect and operate external identity providers — building adapters, normalization layers, health monitoring, and the tooling that makes adding the next provider faster than the last - Build the infrastructure that takes integrated capabilities to proven in production — developer tooling, E2E test infrastructure, reference environments, and go-live systems - Own quality end to end — you write the tests, you monitor production, you fix what breaks - Investigate failures independently, identify root causes, and fix the system rather than the symptom - Lead projects and technical initiatives — define the approach, align the team, and drive execution through to production - Mentor junior engineers — through code reviews, pair programming, and direct feedback that raises the bar for everyone - Participate in the hiring process — interview candidates and help shape the engineering team we're building - Work directly with Product, partners, and customers when solving a problem requires it — you're not behind a ticket queue ## 🧠 Who You Are - 5+ years of software engineering experience — you've personally designed, operated, and taken responsibility for meaningful production systems - Strong backend fundamentals — APIs, distributed systems, async processing, and production reliability are second nature; our stack is TypeScript / JavaScript - Full stack in practice — you go where the problem is, whether that's backend, infrastructure, tooling, or frontend when needed - You own quality: testing, observability, and operational readiness are part of how you work, not someone else's job - Proven ability to lead projects and technical decisions — you set direction, make trade-offs, and bring others with you - Natural mentor — you invest in the people around you and make the team better, not just the codebase - High ownership, low ego — you drive ambiguous problems to resolution without waiting to be told exactly what to do - Based in Seoul; comfortable working in a global, multicultural, English-first environment ## ⚡️ **Fast Facts** - 💰 **$13.5M+ raised** from top global investors - 📦 **2.6M+ downloads** of our sd-jwt-js library - 🌍 **10+ nationalities** across 3 hubs - 🔬 **82 eID research projects** completed - 🌐 **3 projects accepted** into the OpenWallet Foundation ## 🎁 **Benefits & Culture** - Unlimited PTO - Remote-friendly work model - Real ownership from Day 1 - High-impact, global product - Multicultural, respectful team ## 🧭 Interview Process 1. Recruiter Intro Call (30 min) – Get to know Hopae 2. Functional or Technical Interview (45 min) – Dive into your skills 3. Culture Fit Conversation (45 min) – Collaboration & alignment 4. Offer 🎉 *Note: The process may vary slightly depending on the role.* ##