EarnIn - Senior Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Trust

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated progression into Staff/Senior Staff-level technical leadership. • Proven track record defining and executing technical strategy for large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure. • Demonstrated ability to lead architecture and delivery across multiple engineering teams and organizational boundaries, without relying on direct authority. • Deep hands-on experience designing and operating secure, highly available distributed backend systems at scale. • Strong expertise across identity, trust, security, privacy, or regulated-data systems, ideally spanning both consumer and enterprise experiences. • Deep understanding of authentication and authorization protocols and patterns, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, MFA, identity federation, and token management. • Experience architecting one or more Trust domains such as KYC/identity verification, fraud or risk systems, PII tokenization, data vaults, encryption, secure document/file processing, identity resolution, or user deduplication. • Production experience with identity platforms such as Okta, Auth0, Keycloak, or comparable internally developed identity infrastructure. • Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, C#, Go, Kotlin, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, with the ability to work effectively across language boundaries. • Deep experience with REST APIs, SQL/NoSQL data stores, Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms, Kubernetes, microservices, and event-driven architectures. • Strong operational instincts, including experience with SLOs, observability, incident response, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and production reliability for critical systems. • Hands-on experience building AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including orchestration, tool use, evaluation, security boundaries, and guardrails. • Exceptional architectural judgment and the ability to simplify complex systems while balancing security, privacy, reliability, scalability, developer experience, regulatory requirements, and speed of execution. • Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar tools) as part of your software development workflow • WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE • Success in this role is measured by the technical leverage and trust infrastructure you create across EarnIn, not simply by the services you personally build. You will help establish a cohesive Identity & Trust platform that makes it easier for every product team to build secure customer experiences. You'll create durable architectural foundations for who a customer is, whether they can be trusted, what they can access, and how their most sensitive information is protected. • You'll anticipate scale, security, regulatory, and product challenges before they become organizational constraints; simplify fragmented capabilities into reusable platform primitives; and enable engineering teams to move faster without compromising trust or safety. You'll operate comfortably from deep technical implementation to company-level strategy—diving into code and production systems when necessary, leading architecture across teams, mentoring senior technical leaders, and establishing technical direction for some of EarnIn's most critical foundational capabilities.