--- title: 'Senior Backend Engineer at Nametag' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-engineer-nametag-remote-maahxapkm45y' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Senior Backend Engineer at Nametag - **Company:** Nametag - **Location:** Remote - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nametag/jobs/4307559009 ## Job description Senior Backend Engineer Remote, US ## About Nametag Nametag helps companies verify the real person behind high-risk workforce actions, from account recovery to identity checks, before attackers can exploit the gap. Deepfakes, social engineering, and stolen credentials have made "who is actually on the other side of this request?" a critical infrastructure problem. We are building the identity verification and account protection layer companies use to answer that question quickly, securely, and with less friction for real users. ## The Role We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale the systems behind Nametag's identity verification and account protection platform. This is a backend-first role. You will own production services, APIs, database design, authentication flows, and reliability for systems where correctness and security matter. You may work across the stack when the product needs it, but the center of gravity is backend engineering. You will work closely with product, design, and engineering leadership on a small team where senior engineers have real ownership over architecture, implementation, and production outcomes. ## What You'll Do Backend and systems design - Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power identity verification, account recovery, and account protection workflows. - Own database schema design, migrations, query performance, and data integrity. - Build and harden authentication, authorization, and data-protection systems. - Design for correctness under load, including idempotency, safe retries, failure handling, and observability. - Contribute to architecture decisions and help shape the technical roadmap. Product engineering - Partner with product and design to ship secure, usable customer-facing workflows. - Build internal tools and dashboards that improve operational visibility and developer workflows. - Make clean integration decisions across frontend, backend, third-party APIs, and customer systems. Production ownership - Operate what you build. - Debug complex production issues across services, data, infrastructure, and user flows. - Improve reliability, performance, testing, deployment, and observability. - Review code, mentor peers, and raise the technical bar across the team. ## What We're Looking For Work authorization required: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future need for visa sponsorship. You do not need to match every bullet. We care most about strong backend judgment, production ownership, and security-minded engineering. - 5+ years building and operating production backend systems. - Strong experience with backend languages such as Node.js, Go, Python, Java, or similar. - Experience designing APIs and services used by real customers or high-scale internal systems. - Strong relational database experience, PostgreSQL preferred, including schema design and query optimization. - Hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred. - Familiarity with authentication, authorization, identity, security, or fraud and abuse prevention. - Comfort working across the stack when needed, ideally with React, Vue, or a similar modern frontend framework. - Clear communication and good judgment in a remote, cross-functional team. Bonus Points - Experience with identity, authentication, account recovery, fraud prevention, fintech, security, or compliance-heavy products. - Experience with OAuth, SAML, SSO, JWTs, access control, or secure account workflows. - Experience at an early-stage or high-ownership engineering environment. - Strong production incident, observability, or reliability experience. ## What We Value - High ownership. You see what needs doing and do it. - Technical judgment. You make systems simpler, safer, and easier to operate. - Speed with care. We move quickly because attackers move quickly, but we do not cut corners on trust or security. - Kindness and integrity. Trust starts with how we work with each other. ## Compensation The base salary range for this full-time position is $120,000 to $190,000, plus equity and benefits. Nametag is a founding member of the Open Imperative and is committed to pay equity in technology. Final compensation is based on role, level, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter or hiring manager can share more during the process. Culture and Benefits Nametag is a remote-first team with regular in-person time to stay connected. - Remote-first, US-based team - Quarterly team offsites - Flexible schedules - Meaningful equity ownership - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits - Flexible paid time off - New computer hardware and equipment ## About Nametag ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Nametag is a workforce-grade identity verification platform that uses cryptography, biometrics, and AI to protect accounts from deepfakes, social engineering, and account takeover. - **Entity Type**: Private (startup) – has completed at least two funding rounds (Venture Round in 2021 and a Funding Round in 2023), but the specific series stage is not publicly disclosed. - **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States (with a physical office in the Capitol Hill neighborhood) - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Aaron Painter (CEO) and Ross Kinder (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity / Identity Verification (Computer and Network Security) - **Target customers**: B2B; security-conscious enterprises in healthcare, insurance, financial services, social media, software, and higher education; also serves high-risk customer scenarios. - **Mission or purpose statement**: “We’re on a mission to protect every account on the internet.” ## Products & Services - **Deepfake Defense™ Identity Verification Engine**: Proprietary combination of spatial liveness detection (Spatial Selfie™), Adaptive Document Verification™, and Cryptographic Attestation™ to detect and prevent AI-generated deepfakes, presentation attacks, and injection attacks. - **Workforce Identity Verification**: SaaS solution for employee onboarding, secure account recovery, and helpdesk verification. Integrates with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Duo by Cisco, Cloudflare, ServiceNow, Beyond Identity, Greenhouse, OneLogin, Zendesk, Workday, and more. - **Customer Identity Verification**: Extends the same workforce-grade verification to customer-facing support channels (voice, chat, email) to prevent account takeovers and reduce fraud. - **Employee Onboarding**: Automated new-account provisioning that stops threat actors from infiltrating during hiring and provisioning processes. - **Self-Service & Agent-Assisted Solutions**: Branded microsites and integrated workflows for password/MFA resets and ticket resolution, reducing IT support costs. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total funding – two rounds raised (2021 Venture Round and 2023 Funding Round), each with 1 investor. Specific amounts are not publicly available. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investor names are not disclosed. Strategic integration partners include Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Duo by Cisco, Cloudflare, ServiceNow, Beyond Identity, Greenhouse, OneLogin, Zendesk, Workday. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 36.7% year-over-year to 33 employees. LinkedIn followers increased 53.8% year-over-year. Trusted by world leaders in healthcare, insurance, financial services, and software. Rolled out Self-Service Account Recovery tool targeting AI-generated deepfake attacks. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deepfake Defense™** – Proprietary next-gen identity verification engine that uses spatial liveness detection (Spatial Selfie™) to effectively counter AI-generated deepfakes and presentation attacks. - **Cryptographic Attestation™** – Cryptographically signed digital signatures prevent injection attacks and ensure data integrity. - **Reusable, Un-loseable Identity** – Users can reverify with just a selfie; identity persists even when changing devices, with no app download required. - **Privacy-Preserving Architecture** – Designed to exceed data protection standards, with customizable privacy and security controls. - **Omni-channel & Meta-layer** – Connects across IAM, SIEM, ITSM, and HRIS systems, enabling automated self-service and agent-assisted verification from any support channel. ## Strategic Focus - **Protecting accounts in the age of AI-powered impersonation** – Expanding coverage against deepfakes, social engineering, and hiring fraud. - **Reducing IT support costs** – Through self-service password/MFA resets and automated verification that offloads helpdesk tickets. - **Expanding enterprise trust** – Winning security-conscious customers in highly regulated industries (healthcare, finance, insurance). - **Growing integration ecosystem** – Building out the meta-layer across identity infrastructure providers. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-First Culture** – Team spread across Seattle, Ann Arbor, Denver, Oakland, Boston, NYC, and DC. Aligned meetings across time zones; no water-cooler exclusivity. - **In-Person Connection** – Quarterly team off-sites (often outside Seattle) to build camaraderie and collaborate in person. - **Benefits & Equity** – Competitive salary, stock options, comprehensive health (medical, dental, vision), flexible time off, 401(k) with employer match, new computer hardware/equipment. - **Diversity & Inclusion** – Emphasizes diverse backgrounds and perspectives, with an inclusive environment and integrity-driven decision-making. - **Growth Opportunity** – Transitioning from stealth to a well-known brand; employees work directly with experienced leaders and shape the team’s success. - **Open Roles** (as of search date): Enterprise Account Executive, Enterprise Solutions Engineer, Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Full Stack), Senior GRC Analyst, Technical Customer Engineer, Channel Partnerships Manager, Principal Software Engineer. ## Sources 1. [getnametag.com](https://getnametag.com/) 2. [getnametag.com/about](https://getnametag.com/about) 3. [getnametag.com/careers](https://getnametag.com/careers) 4. [linkedin.com/company/getnametag](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getnametag) 5. 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