Senior Backend Engineer – Workforce Verification

Socure

Technical leader driving design and development of innovative software solutions at Socure. Join us in eliminating identity fraud for good while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoMicroservicesNoSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, test, and debug components for distributed systems that operate at large scale and high speed
Own and drive nonfunctional requirements such as scalability, availability, and security
Develop and maintain unit and integration tests, achieving robust code and functional coverage
Produce enterprise-class documentation for internal and external collaboration
Break down complex tasks into manageable components, plan, and execute effectively
Collaborate with team members to elevate technology standards and consistently apply best practices
Participate actively in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software solutions

Requirements

What you’ll need

5-7 years of significant hands-on coding experience with Golang, preferably in a product development environment
Strong programming and design fundamentals, with excellent problem-solving and coding skills
Exceptional analytical and reasoning abilities, with a talent for visualizing processes and outcomes
Passion for continuous learning and growth while building high-performance systems, with a solid understanding of concurrency and multi-threading
Experience architecting microservices and developing RESTful APIs
Prior experience with high-throughput, low-latency storage, cloud computing, NoSQL databases, big data analytics, machine learning services, or large-scale systems is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

GolangmicroservicesRESTful APIsunit testingintegration testingconcurrencymulti-threadingNoSQL databasesbig data analyticsmachine learning

Soft Skills

problem-solvinganalytical abilitiesreasoning abilitiesvisualizationcontinuous learningcollaborationplanningexecutioncommunicationadaptability