Senior Backend Engineer

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Nametag

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Series unknown on 2021-02

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Enterprise

Nametag is a workforce-focused identity verification company providing a SaaS platform that prevents deepfake impersonation and secures account recovery, onboarding, and helpdesk processes. Its Deepfake Defense™ engine combines cryptography, biometrics, and AI-resistant techniques to verify humans across channels, integrate with enterprise IAM and ITSM systems, and enable self-service MFA and password resets to reduce breaches and IT support costs.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ 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