Software Engineer -II

Job description

## **Why Socure?** Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy — verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is felt by businesses, governments, and millions of people every day. We hire people who want that level of responsibility. People who move fast, think critically, act like owners, and care deeply about solving customer problems with precision. If you want predictability or narrow scope, this won’t be your place. If you want to help build the future of identity with a team that holds a high bar for itself — keep reading. We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join Socure’s global engineering team and build scalable, reliable backend systems that power our identity verification and fraud prevention products. ## What You’ll 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. ## What We’re Looking For - 3+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, with 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. We value engineers who are strong in application-layer backend development, learn quickly, and enjoy solving complex problems with direct customer and business impact. *Socure is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all its forms within our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you need an accommodation during any stage of the application or hiring process—including interview or onboarding support—please reach out to your Socure recruiting partner directly.* **Follow Us!** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/Socure) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/socure/) | [X (Twitter)](https://x.com/socureme) | [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/socure/)