Senior Software Engineer - Affirm

HYPR, the Identity Assurance Company, helps organizations create trust in the identity lifecycle. We are a community of bold thinkers and energetic doers who imagined a brand new approach to identity security and, at the same time, are eliminating a pervasive and persistent 60-year old problem – the password. Since being founded in 2014, the company has grown to be the premium provider of authentication security to marquee brands around the globe and are quickly becoming the recognized leader in Identity Assurance. We are looking for exceptional people with the ambition and the will to positively change the world. If that sounds like you, join us on our mission to create a passwordless world and secure the identity lifecycle.

Your Role and Impact

HYPR is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on challenges and is eager to contribute wherever the team needs them. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain key product components while collaborating with peers and contributing as an individual contributor.

You'll work on HYPR's industry-leading security products, deployed at several Fortune 500 companies. These include:

• Identity verification solution
• Open Standards implementations of passwordless authentication to help customers build secure environments
• W3C-compliant authentication servers
• Next-generation application management and analytics

If you're passionate about security, scalable architectures and impactful engineering, HYPR will be a great fit for you

What You will Do

• Design, develop and deploy SaaS services and web front ends, with a focus on scalability and performance
• Own features end-to-end—from understanding requirements and designing solutions to deployment and production support
• Implement comprehensive automated testing at the component level and collaborate with SDET(s).
• Participate in on-call rotation, handling initial triage and escalating if not an SME
• Research new technologies and solutions to improve existing products and explore new directions

Who You Are

• Self starter - able to dive into existing products and learn quickly in a fast, hands-on environment
• Team player - collaboration with team members, operations and support teams is critical
• Detail-oriented — takes pride in writing high-quality, maintainable code and following best practices.
• Security-minded — interested in the Cybersecurity domain ; previous exposure or participation is a plus.
• Autonomous and accountable—takes ownership of work and drives it to completion. Actively assist in the production support aspects of you work as needed

Required Qualifications

Expert-Level

• Java SE 17+ and Spring
• Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform
• Cloud-first development experience (AWS, Azure or similar)
• Storage: relational and NoSQL (MySQL, Oracle, Dynamo, Redis or similar)

Strong

• Understanding of data structures, clean code, modularity, and design patterns
• Experience designing and scaling distributed services with high reliability, low latency, and clear SLA boundaries
• Comfortable working in complex authentication or identity flows involving multiple services
• Full-stack experience with React or a similar modern frontend framework
• Knowledge of various testing methodologies, including unit and integration testing

Preferred

• Interest in identity verification and authentication standards like OAuth, WebAuthn, PKI and similar
• Experience with computer vision, liveness detection or ML-assisted verification workflows
• Infra As Code (IAC) tool (Terraform, Helm, AWS Cloud formation)

Experience:

8+ years of development designing, building and maintaining enterprise web based platform that serve over 100K users. Can be SaaS or On premise.

Education:

BS/MS in computer science or software engineering field.

What HYPR Offers:

• All frontend and backend engineers are Senior, you’re joining a team of All Stars who consistently deliver the highest quality code and products in tight timelines
• An organization with a great work life balance. Many of our employees have families and responsibilities outside of the office that they are able to easily meet.
• Extreme product focus, at HYPR you’ll never be spinning your wheels on tasks that do not matter. Everything we develop is cutting edge and important.
• High levels of ownership. We understand that we are able to do our best work when we can bring insights together.
• An emphasis on collaboration and access to giants in the industry. We achieve our best because we employ the best.
• Our engineers use the latest frameworks and language iterations. Our marketing, sales, ops and more utilize the best and latest tools for innovation and scale.

Note:

This position is hybrid - at least 2 days a week at our NYC office.

H1B/Visa support is not currently available for this specific position.

Base Salary: $160,000 - $190,000

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of our total compensation package that also includes meaningful equity, benefits, and other opportunities at HYPR. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to other HYPRions. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at HYPR to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.

As the premium provider of identity assurance, HYPR is committed to preventing identity fraud by safely and accurately verifying the identities of our employees. Accordingly, all new employees are required to participate in an automated identity verification process, which includes document verification, location detection, and facial recognition, on their first day of employment with the Company. To learn more about this identity verification process, please contact View email address on aiapply.co.

HYPR is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state and/or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on HYPR. Please inform View email address on aiapply.co if you need assistance completing HYPR’s application process.