Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 July 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Nametag

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

📦 Logistics

💰 Series unknown on 2021-02

Healthcare • Insurance • Logistics

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 powering 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 shape the technical roadmap • Partner with product and design to ship secure, usable customer-facing workflows • Build internal tools and dashboards improving operational visibility and developer workflows • Make integration decisions across frontend, backend, third-party APIs, and customer systems • Operate and 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

• 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 • 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 • Bonus: experience with identity, authentication, account recovery, fraud prevention, fintech, security, or compliance-heavy products • Bonus: experience with OAuth, SAML, SSO, JWTs, access control, or secure account workflows • Bonus: experience at an early-stage or high-ownership engineering environment • Bonus: strong production incident, observability, or reliability experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Flexible schedules • Meaningful equity ownership • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits • Flexible paid time off • New computer hardware and equipment • Quarterly team offsites