The Role
As a Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and scale high-availability API solutions on AWS, ensuring security and performance through automation and collaboration.
Summary Generated by Built In
Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in digital & biometric identity authentication, fraud prevention, and mobile deposit solutions. Our verified identity platform and advanced image capture solutions are built on the latest advancements in biometric recognition, artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning, and trusted by over 7,500 organizations worldwide. We are headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Mexico, and the Netherlands. Visit us at www.miteksystems.com.
At Mitek, we believe that teams are more resilient, effective, and innovative when they benefit from a wide range of ideas, lived experiences, and perspectives. The strength of our organization is deeply rooted in the people who power it.
We know that a workforce reflecting the richness of our communities and customers helps us better serve their needs. These lived experiences influence our decisions, shape our products, services, and help us grow with intention. When it comes to talent, our goal is clear: to discover exceptional individuals and to ensure they discover us. We prioritize drive, skill, experience, and ambition in everything we do for our clients.
We are Virtual 1st! Whether you choose to work remotely from your home office or in-person from one of Mitek’s offices, our practices, processes and tools are designed to enable your success. At Mitek, the Future of Work is about flexibility and preference wherever and whenever we are working.
Join Mitek’s high-performing engineering team and help build the next generation of our cloud-native identity verification platform.
As a Software Engineer, you’ll play a role in designing, building, and scaling high-availability API solutions on AWS.
You’ll collaborate with talented engineers, CloudOps, DevOps, and Product Managers to deliver elegant, performant systems that power trusted digital experiences worldwide.
What You Will Do (Essential Responsibilities):
- Design, build, and deploy production-grade APIs and services within a microservices/serverless architecture.
- Own your code from design to deployment, ensuring scalability, security, and performance at every step.
- Automate testing and delivery through robust unit, integration, and performance tests.
- Document your work clearly for internal stakeholders and external developers consuming our public APIs.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, researchers, and operations teams to translate ideas into production-ready features.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and help drive continuous improvement.
- Develop clean, maintainable, and production hardened code.
Who You Are (Soft Skills/Attributes):
- Analytical and inventive. You experiment, learn fast, and refine your approach.
- Data-driven and innovative mindset. You eagerly try new things and learn from your experiences.
- Logical and creative problem-solver, with the ability to summarize issues simply and effectively.
- Organized and adaptive. You can balance multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Clear and concise communication. You effectively set expectations, give feedback, and collaborate effectively.
- Strong team player with a positive, can-do attitude and the ability to adapt to changes.
- Comfortable working with ambiguous requirements and shaping clarity as you go.
- Excited to explore and adapt to new technologies. Bring modern engineering practices to life.
What You Bring (Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):
- A Bachelor of Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of professional software development experience using modern frameworks and tools. (Java)
- Relevant development experience with Java.
- Relational database experience (e.g. PostgreSQL)
- Proven experience designing and deploying solutions on AWS.
- Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as S3, SQS, ECS, EC2, and Lambda would be preferrable.
- A background in CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
- Hands-on experience with microservices or serverless architectures.
- Proficiency with Git.
- Proficiency with spoken and written English.
What Would be Nice (Preferred Skills & Experience):
- You mentor peers and contribute to technical direction.
- Ability to drive the adoption of new tools and technologies across teams.
- Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and continuous delivery principles.
- Familiarity with AWS services like ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and KMS.
- 1+ years of production experience in Golang.
- Programming experience in Python, Groovy, Bash, and/or C++.
- Experience with cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK, and/or similar.
- Experience developing solutions for deployment within Docker containers, CI/CD procedures (Jenkins) and implementation of distributed systems based on serverless technology or micro-services architecture.
- Frontend exposure to React/Redux, or similar JavaScript frameworks.
- HTML/CSS, experience with Java template engines (e.g. FreeMarker, Thymeleaf, etc.)
- Database experience with MongoDB, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, or RDS.
- Experience developing solutions for deployment within Docker containers, CI/CD procedures (Jenkins) and implementation of distributed systems based on serverless technology or micro-services architecture.
- Familiarity with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, or image processing.
- Awareness of machine learning architectures or data pipelines.
- Experience delivering features from user stories through to deployment in Agile environments.
What We Offer
- Work with a global leader in Digital Identity and Fraud prevention.
- Build products that power secure, seamless digital experiences.
- High-impact role in a fast-growing market.
- Excellent working atmosphere and great culture.
- 100% remote-friendly (with optional work from our Barcelona office in Sant Cugat).
- Work with a diverse global team passionate about technology and impact.
- Continuous learning and growth opportunities.
- Competitive compensation, perks and benefits.
We take pride in enabling career growth in an environment of innovation and teamwork. Our commitment to all Mitekians is to do meaningful work that matters. Our culture is defined by delivering our best to our customers by providing high value solutions and impactful outcomes, by continuously challenging convention, and by caring for each other through collaboration and celebrating our successes. We are committed to creating competitive, equitable compensation & benefits programs and career development opportunities.
Benefit offerings – may vary based on geographic location
Wellness: Universal, supplemental, and private healthcare plan choices based on country specifics
Financial future: retirement/pension plan contributions, MTK stock plan participation
Income protection: life event & disability coverage
Paid time off: generous annual leave, company holidays, volunteer time off
Learning: e-learning license, tuition reimbursement, hackathons
Home office setup allowance
Additional/optional benefits: pet insurance, identity theft protection, legal assistance
We sincerely appreciate your interest in Mitek. We know your time is valuable and look forward to the potential of speaking with you further!
Top Skills
AWS
CloudFormation
Docker
DynamoDB
Go
MongoDB
Rds
React
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
“Accelerate the digital transformation of your business with digital identity verification."
Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in mobile capture and digital identity verification solutions built on the latest advancements in AI and machine learning. Mitek’s identity verification solutions enable an enterprise to verify a user’s identity during a digital transaction, which assists financial institutions, payments companies and other businesses operating in highly regulated markets in mitigating financial risk and meeting regulatory requirements while increasing revenue from digital channels. Mitek also reduces the friction in the users’ experience with advanced data prefill and automation of the onboarding process. Mitek’s innovative solutions are embedded into the apps of more than 6,100 organizations and used by more than 80 million consumers for mobile check deposit, new account opening and more.
