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As the world moves to a mobile-first economy, businesses need to modernize how they acquire, engage with and enable consumers. Prove’s phone-centric identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions reduce friction, enhance security and privacy across all digital channels, and accelerate revenues while reducing operating expenses and fraud losses. Over 1,000 enterprise customers use Prove’s platform to process 20 billion customer requests annually across industries, including banking, lending, healthcare, gaming, crypto, e-commerce, marketplaces, and payments. For the latest updates from Prove, follow us on LinkedIn.
Prove is driving the future of digital identity. We are looking for Provers who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smart but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.
Prove has big plans, and we’re excited about the future. If this sounds like the place for you – come join our team!
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Department: Technology
Reports To: Engineering Manager
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Chicago, IL or Denver, CO
About The Role
Prove is building next generation user authentication and identity solutions that combine enterprise-grade cloud services, behavioral biometrics from smartphone sensor data, and machine learning. You’ll be part of a highly effective engineering team with a collaborative get-stuff-done culture. We embrace our startup roots and are willing to wear whatever hat is necessary to make our team and products successful.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working on complex projects as a critical member of the team. You will contribute to the design and implementation of software components, systems and features aiming to improve the capability, availability, scalability, latency, security, compliance and efficiency of our solutions. This is a hands-on role where you will be responsible for making technical decisions and influencing product direction. You will work collaboratively with the team and mentor your peers by explaining your designs, code, and testing with clarity that elevates everyone in our organization.
Tech Stack
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront
- Using Golang for building scalable, high-performance backend services
- Containerization and Orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
Responsibilities
- Write well designed, testable, and efficient code that meets coding standards.
- Ensure designs comply with requirements and perform code reviews.
- Own delivery of software features from product conception to production deployment by developing project roadmaps, engaging with Product to define technical requirements and design, and engaging with IT/Ops to ensure software makes it out to production in a timely manner.
- Exercise creative thinking and imagination to find solutions to hard problems.
- Lead projects and mentor engineers.
- Promote, maintain and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion and leadership
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field/experience
- 6+ years of hands-on software development experience
- Strong software development principles, including scalable software and architectural design patterns
- Proven experience as a backend developer, preferably with experience in Golang
- Experience with public cloud infrastructure
- Prior technical leadership experience
- DevOps experience highly desirable
- Strong passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training.
- Experience in high-growth /pre-IPO Technology companies
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
The anticipated salary range for this role is $140,000 - $170,000, company bonus and stock options. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, geo-location, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Benefits & Perks for FTE Provers:
- Competitive salaries & Bonus Plan (for eligible roles) and Equity Plan
- Modern Health for financial, mental, and physical wellness
- 401(k) Retirement Plan & Match (US Offices) and Local Country Pension (International Offices)
- Unlimited Vacation and Flexible hours
- Comprehensive medical benefits for you and your family ❤️
- Emotional & Physical Wellness – Access to wellness services (EAP & Prove Well-Being Reimbursement)
- Bottomless snacks & beverages for certain office locations
- Daily GrubHub stipend for lunch if coming into the office (US Offices)
- A great place to work and connect with other talented Provers like yourself!
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Prove we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Equal Opportunity Employment:
Prove is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics
Privacy & Data Protection:
When you are applying for a job at Prove, we collect and use your personal information in the job application process. To understand more about how Prove uses your personal information, please see our Recruitment Privacy Policy on our website.
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What We Do
As the world moves to a mobile-first economy, businesses need to modernize how they acquire, engage with and enable consumers. Prove’s phone-centric identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions reduce friction, enhance security and privacy across all digital channels, and accelerate revenues while reducing operating expenses and fraud losses. Over 1,000 enterprise customers use Prove’s platform to process 20 billion customer requests annually across industries, including banking, lending, healthcare, gaming, crypto, e-commerce, marketplaces, and payments.
Why Work With Us
At Prove we made a contrarian bet that the way in which mobile phones instantly authenticated themselves would solve fundamental issues with trust on the web. We are proving this thesis by authenticating 10,000,000 transactions per day for Tier 1 US banks, says CEO Rodger Desai.
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