Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nametag is a company focused on identity verification and account protection. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale their backend systems, ensuring security and reliability while collaborating closely with product and design teams.
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
- 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
- Strong relational database experience, PostgreSQL preferred, including schema design and query optimization
- Hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred
- 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
- 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
- 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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