meridianlink - Software Engineer III – Platform Services
Requirements
• 3-5 years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to own and deliver features independently in a production environment • Hands-on experience building backend services in .NET or Python, including RESTful API development • Demonstrated experience implementing or integrating with federated identity systems using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, and/or JWT in production applications • Practical understanding of authorization frameworks: how policies are modeled, enforced, and integrated into application and platform services • Proficiency in .NET or Python for backend service development; familiarity with modern API frameworks (e.g., .NET 9+, FastAPI, etc.) • Working knowledge of identity protocol mechanics: authorization code flow, token introspection, claims-based access, assertion handling, and SSO logout behavior • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS integration patterns, including tenant-scoped configuration and user identity across application boundaries • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including relevant managed services for networking, compute, and secrets management • Proficiency with standard development tooling: Git, CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and automated testing • Active use of AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent) as part of a daily engineering workflow • Identity & Authorization Depth: • Prior experience working with a commercial or open-source identity platform (e.g., an OIDC provider, IAM system, or enterprise SSO solution) in an engineering capacity, not just as a consumer • Experience modeling and implementing fine-grained authorization: RBAC, ABAC, or policy-based access control systems • Familiarity with token security considerations including signing, expiration, revocation, and safe storage patterns • Regulated or Platform Environments: • Prior experience building software in a financial services, fintech, or otherwise regulated technology environment • Experience building internal platform capabilities used by other engineering teams, not just end-user-facing features • Exposure to SOC 2 or similar compliance frameworks from an engineering perspective • AI-Assisted Engineering: • Experience contributing to AI harnesses, evaluation pipelines, or tooling that improves engineering workflow throughput • Comfort using AI tools not just for code completion but for design exploration, test generation, and investigation • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience • What Success Looks Like • A successful hire integrates quickly into the team's delivery rhythm, picks up the identity and integration domain with focus, and begins shipping production contributions within the first weeks. Within the first few months, they have built enough context to work largely independently on scoped features, are participating meaningfully in code reviews, and have demonstrated the kind of operational ownership -- shipping, monitoring, and standing behind their work -- that keeps a small team running well. • Over time, impact is measured by the quality and reliability of what they've shipped, how much they've reduced the platform's dependence on tribal knowledge, and how effectively they've supported product teams integrating with the identity platform. Engineers who thrive here do so because they care about the craft, want to operate at the leading edge of AI-assisted development, and are motivated by building infrastructure that other teams depend on to deliver real product value.
Responsibilities
• Identity & Authorization Platform Development • Build and extend platform services that manage federated identity, authentication flows, and authorization enforcement across MeridianLink products • Implement integrations with the centralized identity platform, including token handling, session management, user provisioning, and tenant configuration • Support product teams through their integration process: help them understand the platform's contracts, debug integration issues, and navigate edge cases in multi-tenant identity behavior • Build the tooling, documentation, and examples that make those integrations repeatable and self-service over time • Integration Engineering • Design and implement backend service integrations using common patterns (REST APIs, event-driven messaging, webhook delivery) in Python • Build with multi-product and multi-tenant scenarios in mind: data isolation, tenant-scoped configuration, and cross-product user identity are properties of the platform, not edge cases • Participate in API design reviews with attention to clarity, contract stability, and developer experience for downstream consumers • AI-Assisted Delivery • Use AI development tools as an active part of the delivery workflow: for code generation, design validation, test scaffolding, and investigation • Contribute to AI harness development that helps the team move faster and catch regressions without proportionally increasing manual effort • Engineering Craft & Observability • Write tests at the unit, integration, and acceptance level appropriate to what's being built • Instrument services for observability: structured logging, metrics, and alerting that make production behavior visible and actionable • Participate in on-call rotations and follow incidents through to root cause and remediation • Collaboration & Growing Others • Participate in design discussions and code reviews; give and receive feedback constructively • Provide mentorship and review support to L1 and L2 engineers on the team • Contribute to internal documentation, runbooks, and onboarding materials • Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Benefits
• MeridianLink runs a comprehensive background check, credit check, and drug test as part of our offer process. • It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the salary range. The actual salary will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law including geographical location. • t is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the salary range. • Meridianlink offers: • Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability) • Flexible paid time off • 401(k) plan with company match • All compensation and benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of the underlying plans or programs, as applicable and as may be amended, terminated, or superseded from time to time. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • If above question is "Other" please add the source below. • I prefer not to answer • Black or African American • Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin • Indigenous Peoples, First Nations, Native American, or Alaska Native • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • White / Caucasian • Middle Eastern or North African • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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