Software Engineer III — Developer Portal

Company Overview

IDMe is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with IDMe once and seamlessly login across websites without having to create a new login and verify their identity again. Over 175 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with IDMe at 22 federal agencies, 50 state government agencies, and more than 100 healthcare organizations. Over 600 consumer brands use IDMe to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. IDMe’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. IDMe 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/.

IDMe is a full-time, in-office culture. Unless a specific job description explicitly states otherwise, all roles are on-site five days per week at one of our offices in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL. Certain roles — such as field-based sales or other remote-by-design positions — may have different work arrangements as noted in their individual postings.

At IDMe, we embrace the thoughtful use of AI tools in our daily work and there are even occasions where we leverage AI in our hiring process. However, during the interview process, we want to understand your individual skills and experiences. Therefore, we have guidelines on how AI can be appropriately used during your application and interviews which can be found here.

Role Overview

IDMe is seeking a Software Engineer III to join the Developer Portal team, where we're building the self-service platform that enables organizations to rapidly integrate IDMe.

Identity proofing is fundamentally complex. Integrating an identity proofing flow requires many steps while meeting standards-body assurance requirements. The Developer Portal is the product that brings those pieces together for the external developer.

Today, much of that onboarding is still performed manually by in-house Solutions Consultants who have many other responsibilities. Our mission is to enable customers and their developers to register their application, configure their identity needs, test in a production-like sandbox, and launch to production, all through a modern self-service experience.

This is a frontend-focused full-stack role. You will spend most of your time designing and building the customer-facing experiences of the developer portal: application registration, identity configuration, sandbox testing, and launch workflows, in our Next.js, React, and TypeScript micro-frontend platform. You'll care about usability, accessibility, performance, and a coherent design system. You'll also work with our backend teams on the API contracts behind those experiences, and contribute to backend services when it helps you ship a feature end-to-end. Backend experience is a plus, not a requirement.

You'll own features from design handoff through production operation. You'll take defined problems, coordinate across teams to land them safely, and grow into technical ownership of the experiences you build.

Our frontend is a micro-frontend platform built with Next.js, React, and TypeScript. Backend services are primarily Java (Spring Boot) alongside legacy Ruby services. We value engineers who are comfortable learning whatever technology the problem requires.

This position is based in our Mountain View, CA office five days per week.

Key Responsibilities

Build & Ship Self-Service Developer Experiences

Design and implement Developer Portal capabilities in Next.js, React, and TypeScript, from design handoff through deployment. Independently drive small-to-medium features, coordinating with adjacent teams where your work crosses service boundaries.

Own the Frontend Platform

Extend the micro-frontend platform, including shared UI component libraries, feature-flag-driven migrations, and performance, accessibility, and observability standards. Make deliberate decisions that keep the developer experience coherent as the portal grows.

Integrate with Versioned API Contracts

Consume and help shape the REST API contracts behind your features. Our customers integrate directly against these contracts, so changes must be additive and safe by default. Contribute to backend services and data models where a feature requires it.

Authentication, Authorization & Identity Experiences

Build secure, customer-facing flows spanning OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, enterprise SSO, multi-tenant access control, session handling, and credential management. Partner with our Identity, Organizations, Authorization, and Platform Engineering teams to evolve these capabilities without disrupting existing integrations.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with Product, Design, Architecture, and platform teams to clarify requirements, surface risks early, and turn designs into polished, production-ready experiences.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience building and operating production web applications.
• Strong experience with React and TypeScript, including building and maintaining shared component libraries and complex, stateful customer-facing UIs.
• Experience with Next.js or a comparable modern frontend framework, including server-side rendering, routing, and data fetching.
• Strong command of HTML, CSS, and web fundamentals, with attention to accessibility (WCAG), responsive design, and frontend performance.
• Experience building and testing frontend features with tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, or Cypress.
• Experience consuming REST APIs and working against versioned API contracts, including OpenAPI or a similar specification.
• Working familiarity with authentication and authorization concepts such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or related identity standards.
• Demonstrated experience independently driving small-to-medium technical initiatives from definition through production, including cross-team coordination.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and a commitment to an AI-first engineering culture that leverages these tools to improve software quality, testing, and engineering velocity.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience partnering across Product, Design, and Engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

Frontend and developer experience

• Has built developer experience as an explicit goal (SDKs, API reference docs, quickstarts, sandbox or test environments, error messages and debugging surfaces, self-serve onboarding flows) and can speak to how it changed time-to-first-successful-integration for real external developers.
• Experience building developer-facing platforms such as developer portals, API platforms, authentication platforms, cloud platforms, or payments platforms.
• Experience with micro-frontend architectures such as Webpack Module Federation.
• Experience with design systems, Storybook, or visual regression testing.
• Experience performing feature-flag-driven migrations in customer-facing production systems.
• Experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Prometheus, and Sentry.

Backend and platform (nice to have)

• Experience building backend services and REST APIs with Java (21+) and Spring Boot, or Ruby on Rails, Node.js, or similar.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, including authoring SQL and performing safe schema migrations.
• Experience with OpenAPI tooling, docs-as-code, or SDK generation.
• Experience with enterprise identity standards including SAML 2.0 or SCIM.
• Experience with relationship-based authorization systems such as SpiceDB, OpenFGA, or policy engines such as OPA or Cedar.
• Familiarity with identity verification, fraud prevention, KYC/AML, or regulated identity systems, and working knowledge of NIST 800-63 IAL/AAL guidelines.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and cloud-native application development.
• Startup or high-growth company background.

The annual base salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and role. 

IDMe offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.

Mountain View, CA and New York, NY Pay Range

$142,000—$184,000 USD

IDMe maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All IDMe employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. IDMe does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. IDMe adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, IDMe's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.

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