Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nametag builds identity verification and account protection infrastructure that helps companies verify users and prevent attacks during high-risk workforce actions. The Senior Backend Engineer will design, scale, and operate backend services, APIs, databases, authentication systems, and production infrastructure, while contributing to architecture, product delivery, reliability, and team mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power identity verification, account recovery, and account protection workflows
- Own database schema design, migrations, query performance, and data integrity
- Build and harden authentication, authorization, and data-protection systems
- Design for correctness under load, including idempotency, safe retries, failure handling, and observability
- Contribute to architecture decisions and help shape the technical roadmap
- Partner with product and design to ship secure, usable customer-facing workflows
- Build internal tools and dashboards that improve operational visibility and developer workflows
- Make clean integration decisions across frontend, backend, third-party APIs, and customer systems
- Operate what you build
- Debug complex production issues across services, data, infrastructure, and user flows
- Improve reliability, performance, testing, deployment, and observability
- Review code, mentor peers, and raise the technical bar across the team
Skills
- **Work authorization required:** Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future need for visa sponsorship
- * 5+ years building and operating production backend systems
- * Strong experience with backend languages such as Node.js, Go, Python, Java, or similar
- * Experience designing APIs and services used by real customers or high-scale internal systems
- * Familiarity with authentication, authorization, identity, security, or fraud and abuse prevention
- * Comfort working across the stack when needed, ideally with React, Vue, or a similar modern frontend framework
- * Clear communication and good judgment in a remote, cross-functional team
- * Strong relational database experience, PostgreSQL preferred, including schema design and query optimization
- * Hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred
- * Experience with identity, authentication, account recovery, fraud prevention, fintech, security, or compliance-heavy products
- * Experience with OAuth, SAML, SSO, JWTs, access control, or secure account workflows
- * Experience at an early-stage or high-ownership engineering environment
- * Strong production incident, observability, or reliability experience
Benefits
- Remote-first, US-based team
- Quarterly team offsites
- Flexible schedules
- Meaningful equity ownership
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- New computer hardware and equipment
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