At Socure, we’re on a mission—to verify 100% of good identities in real time and eliminate identity fraud from the internet.
Using predictive analytics and advanced machine learning trained on billions of signals to power RiskOS™, Socure has created the most accurate identity verification and fraud prevention platform in the world. Trusted by thousands of leading organizations—from top banks and fintechs to government agencies—we solve real, high-impact problems at scale. Come join us!
At Socure, we are building mission‑critical systems that power the future of digital trust, operating at global scale and high reliability. As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will be a hands‑on technical leader who sets direction, elevates engineering quality, and delivers measurable product outcomes while remaining actively involved in design and development. This is not a pure people‑management or delivery‑management role, you will contribute code/design, lead complex initiatives, and coach engineers to do their best work.
This role is ideal for leaders who thrive in high‑growth, product‑driven environments, have a passion for distributed systems, and want to directly shape secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure while developing engineering talent.
What you'll do:Architect and design scalable, resilient, and high‑performance backend systems and platforms on AWS, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
Contribute hands‑on to critical paths (design reviews, prototyping, code, performance tuning, debugging), typically 30% of your time, while creating leverage through mentoring and standards.
Lead technical initiatives across services and teams; drive design forums, set engineering guardrails, and ensure high‑quality delivery through code reviews and automation.
Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Data Science, and Platform to shape scope, sequence milestones, and de‑risk execution for iterative releases.
Own APIs and microservices design, including REST and event‑driven patterns; uphold best practices for versioning, contracts, and backward compatibility.
Drive operational excellence: define SLOs, improve observability and alerting, harden on‑call/runbooks, and lead incident response and post‑mortems.
Solve complex problems in distributed systems (throughput, latency, consistency, data modeling) with a pragmatic approach to tradeoffs.
Document architectural decisions, service ownership, and operational runbooks to scale knowledge and ensure long‑term maintainability.
Grow engineers with clear expectations, actionable feedback, and mentoring; hire and onboard diverse talent aligned to our culture of ownership and collaboration.
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of large‑scale backend systems in production.
3+ years of technical leadership (Tech Lead or Manager) with hands‑on delivery; demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross‑team initiatives while writing/designing high‑quality software.
5+ years of experience with Golang (preferred) and/or Java; strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, concurrency, distributed systems).
Strong understanding with AWS cloud‑native architectures and services (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, RDS, S3) and resilience patterns.
Strong understanding in microservices, APIs, and event‑driven design; proficiency with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Strong operational mindset: observability, monitoring, incident response, performance engineering, and security best practices.
Strong understanding with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies (unit, integration, e2e), and modern DevOps workflows; comfort with Git‑based trunk/branch strategies.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision‑making; ability to frame tradeoffs and drive alignment across engineering and product.
Socure is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all its forms within our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need an accommodation during any stage of the application or hiring process—including interview or onboarding support—please reach out to your Socure recruiting partner directly.
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What We Do
Socure is the leading platform for digital identity trust. Its predictive analytics platform applies artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, phone, address, IP, device, velocity, and the broader internet to verify identities in real time. The company has more than 750 customers across the financial services, gaming, telecom, and e-commerce industries, including three of the top five banks, seven of the top 10 card issuers, three of the top MSBs, the top payroll provider, the top credit bureau, and over 100 of the largest and most successful FinTechs. Marquee customers include Chime, Varo Money, Public, Stash, and DraftKings.
Socure has received numerous industry awards and accolades, including being named to Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2021, being awarded Best New Technology Introduced over the Last 12 Months – Data and Data Services at the 2020 American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs), being ranked number 70 in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, being listed as a Gartner Cool Vendor, being recognized by Forbes as one of the Top 25 Machine Learning Startups to Watch, being named to CB Insights: The FinTech 250, and being awarded Finovate’s Award for Best Use of AI/ML, to name a few.
Why Work With Us
Socure is a critical part of the infrastructure of the digital economy and what we do is critical to ensure the safety of anyone doing any sort of business on the internet. Because of our technology digital identity theft will be eradicated and more people will be included in the digital economy than ever before.
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