[Hiring] Senior Staff Software Engineer @EarnIn

Role Description

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Staff Software Engineer to help define and evolve the Identity & Trust platform that enables secure, effortless access and trustworthy customer onboarding across EarnIn's expanding consumer and enterprise ecosystem. This role spans:

• Identity
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Identity verification
• Privacy
• Data protection
• Secure document processing
• User/entity resolution
• Fraud prevention

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll operate at both a deep technical and organizational scale. You'll:

• Shape multi-year platform strategy
• Lead architecture across multiple teams
• Solve ambiguous and high-impact technical problems
• Establish engineering patterns for trusted customer experiences
• Help define AI and agentic engineering workflows

The base salary range for this full-time position is $238,660-$341,000 + equity + benefits. This position is a remote role.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• Deep understanding of authentication and authorization protocols and patterns.
• Experience architecting Trust domains such as KYC/identity verification, fraud or risk systems.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hands-on experience building AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows.
• Exceptional architectural judgment and the ability to simplify complex systems.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools as part of your software development workflow.

Requirements

• Define the technical vision, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for Identity & Trust.
• Drive complex, ambiguous initiatives spanning multiple services and teams.
• Design highly available distributed systems and APIs using microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Architect solutions for OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, MFA, identity federation, and more.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, technical standards, APIs, documentation, and platform primitives.
• Set the bar for reliability, observability, SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Lead the responsible adoption of agentic workflows and multi-agent systems.
• Mentor Staff and Senior engineers and influence technical direction across organizations.
• Work closely with various stakeholders to translate needs into durable technical strategies.

Benefits

• Equity options
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Remote work flexibility

Company Description

As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks.

We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway.

At EarnIn, we believe that the best way to build a financial system that works for everyday people is by hiring a team that represents our diverse community. Our team is diverse not only in background and experience but also in perspective. We celebrate our diversity and strive to create a culture of belonging.