Software Engineer III - Trust Service Team

Responsibilities

• Data Model & API Contract Ownership : Own the trust inspection data model and the REST API contract that downstream consumers and SDKs bind to. Make deliberate decisions about backwards compatibility, versioning, and the clean separation between public API shape and internal implementation details.
• Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 4+ years of professional software development experience with a strong emphasis on backend service engineering, preferably in Java or another JVM language.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and commitment to an AI-first engineering culture that leverages these tools to maximize code quality, test coverage, and engineering velocity.
• Deep comfort with relational databases, writing complex SQL queries, reasoning about query plans, and working within a production database schema.
• Experience designing and versioning REST APIs backed by OpenAPI specifications.

Requirements

• Experience with modern Java (21+) and its type-safety features - records, sealed interfaces, pattern matching - applied to real production codebases.
• Familiarity with graph or highly relational data models: understanding entity relationships, traversal patterns, and the tradeoffs of different read/write shapes.
• Comfort reasoning about identity and trust decision

Benefits

Additional Information

Company Overview ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly login across websites without having to create a new login and verify their identity again. Over 152 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 45 state government agencies, and 70+ healthcare organizations. More than 600+ consumer brands use ID.me to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. ID.me's technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is committed to "No Identity Left Behind" to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. To learn more, visit https://network.id.me/ . Role Overview ID.me is seeking a Software Engineer III to join the Trust Service team, where we build and operate the core infrastructure that decides how much trust to extend to every identity claim made by over 152 million members. The Trust Service owns the Trust Graph, a structured record of identity inspections that captures what was verified and how reliably it was verified. Every access decision at 20 federal agencies, 44 state governments, 66 healthcare organizations, and hundreds of consumer brands depends on the identity and trust data our service produces. As a Software Engineer III, you will work on a high-throughput, correctness-critical Java backend service at the heart of ID.me's identity platform. The work is backend-intensive and data-model-deep: you will design and evolve REST APIs, write precise database queries, and ship features that are used at production scale. You will be a key technical voice on how the trust data model evolves and how new inspection types, identity providers, and scoring rules land safely in production.

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