Senior Backend Engineer, Machine Learning

Socure

full-time

Posted on: 9/3/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $170,000 - $185,000 per year

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About the role

Socure is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our Digital Intelligence team.
Design and implement scalable ML pipelines for model training, inference, and evaluation.
Build and maintain systems for feature engineering, deployment, and monitoring.
Collaborate with data scientists to transform research prototypes into production-grade models.
Optimize ML systems for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Implement CI/CD and MLOps practices for model versioning, reproducibility, and monitoring.
Manage ML workflows and pipeline orchestration.
Partner with product, engineering, data science, and security teams to ensure compliant and reliable model delivery.
Document systems and processes for team use and compliance.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
5+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production.
Proficient in Java, or Go, with experience using production-grade ML frameworks.
Familiarity with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, or similar tools.
Strong understanding of AWS services including SageMaker, Glue, EMR, Lambda, and Step Functions.
Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow or AWS Step Functions.
Deep understanding of MLOps concepts including deployment automation and experiment tracking.
Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and distributed computing.
Strong problem-solving and communication skills.