About Prove
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: Full-Stack Software Engineer
Department: Technology
Reports To: Director, Engineering
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Chicago Metro Area, IL or Denver Metro Area, CO
Job Summary
We’re looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to be part of the team designing and developing the digital identity infrastructure.
The ideal candidate will have a unique blend of technical expertise, curiosity and analytical mindset.
In this role you will get the opportunity to leverage your knowledge and passion for excellence. You will be a technical expert while being skilled in front end and back end development. You have a big picture visualization of the entire platform.
This is a hands-on role where you will need to demonstrate the skills, experience, and confidence to work with other senior engineers and product management team members to deliver solutions that will delight our customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences.
- Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions.
- Design client-side and server-side architecture.
- Develop new features and infrastructure development to support business and project requirements.
- Ensure application performance, uptime and scale maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design.
- Write clean, functional code on the front and back end.
- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications; write effective API’s
- Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software.
- Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchased alternatives.
- Creates new ideas, solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges.
- Uses unconventional areas as sources of inspiration and insight into new options and solutions.
- Solves complex problems through developing new explanations or applications.
- Contributes ideas for improvements in work methods, systems, processes, and procedures.
- Encourages responsible risk taking to achieve high quality results; fosters two-way communication.
- Presents changes and uncertainties to others with a positive attitude, emphasizing the opportunities and the actions to be taken.
- Make it a routine to investigate the root cause of problems, inviting others to share what they have learned.
- Encourages others to experiment and try new ideas, helping to create a safe-to-fail environment.
- Empowers team members to take actions with a sense of urgency, providing timely feedback based on clear metrics; assists others to improve efficiency.
- Facilitates information and ideas sharing within teams and across organization boundaries.
Qualifications and Experience:
- 4-5+ years of software development experience; Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
- Deep understanding of object-oriented programming and experience with at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g., TypeScript, Go, Java, Python)
- Go / Java / Typescript / React
- Experience architecting and developing solutions to complex problems.
- Experience with public cloud services.
- Experience with database internals, database language theories, database design, SQL, GraphQL and No SQL technologies.
- AWS Certification is a plus
- DevOps Experience highly desirable
- Promote, maintain, and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion, and leadership.
- Strong passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training.
- Experience in high growth /pre-IPO Technology companies is a plus.
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 $120,000 - $135,000 plus company bonus. 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.
Privacy & Data Protection
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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.
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions.
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.
