Senior Backend Engineer — Prove Identity

Company: Prove Identity

About the Company: Prove is the leading digital identity verification network, processing billions of identity transactions annually. Their phone-based identity platform is used by financial institutions, healthcare providers, and enterprises across the US. Prove works with 9 of the top 10 US banks and 1,000+ enterprise clients.

Job Category: Software Engineering / Backend / Identity / Fintech

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent Location: Remote — USA

Salary: Competitive (estimated $150,000–$190,000 based on Prove's market positioning and role level)

Application Link: https://remoteok.com/remote-engineer-jobs (search "Senior Backend Engineer Prove")

Posted: May 2026 (listed on RemoteOK engineer jobs page this week)

Job Description: You'll build and scale backend systems that power Prove's phone-based identity verification network, processing billions of transactions with high reliability and security standards for the US financial services sector.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build high-throughput, fault-tolerant backend services for identity verification at scale
• Work on real-time data pipelines and APIs serving 9 of the top 10 US banks
• Maintain strict security, compliance, and reliability standards for financial-grade identity infrastructure
• Collaborate with product and platform teams on new identity verification capabilities
• Participate in on-call and contribute to reliability improvements

Skills Required: Go or Java backend engineering, high-throughput distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), API design, identity/security engineering awareness, fintech compliance familiarity.

Requirements:

• Senior backend engineering experience with distributed systems at scale
• Experience in financial services, identity, or security-adjacent engineering preferred
• Strong cloud infrastructure and reliability engineering background
• Comfort in a compliance-aware, security-focused production environment