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title: 'Software Engineer at Hopae'
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# Software Engineer at Hopae

- **Company:** Hopae
- **Location:** Seoul, South Korea
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hopae/6232e0a6-a4c6-4ded-a942-2397da64364e

## Job description

🌍 About Hopae At Hopae, we're building the world's most trusted digital identity platform — private, secure, and built for real life. We believe identity should be in your control — not locked behind outdated systems or centralized gatekeepers. Our product, Hopae Connect, lets businesses verify real people across borders through a single API — no need to build country-by-country integrations themselves. Our technology powers instant, privacy-first verification across fintech, credentials, supply chain, and gaming — for IDV providers, e-signature platforms, and enterprises who need identity to just work, everywhere. Backed by top global investors, Hopae operates across Seoul, Paris, Luxembourg, and San Francisco, bringing together exceptional talent from over 10 nationalities. We move fast, think globally, and build products that define the future of identity.

💡 Why You’ll Love It Here

- Global DNA: Work with exceptional peers across Seoul, Paris, and San Francisco
- High Impact: Build technology shaping the global trust and identity landscape
- Ownership Culture: No micromanagement — full trust, full accountability
- Elite Standards: Work fast, learn fast, and grow with world-class peers
- Inclusive & Respectful: 10+ nationalities, diverse perspectives, one vision
- Growth Mindset: Access mentorship, leadership visibility, and continuous learning

🎯 What You'll Do Hopae connects businesses to government eIDs and identity systems worldwide through a single platform — across fintech, credentials, supply chain, and gaming. As a Software Engineer at Hopae, you own real problems end to end, across the full stack, in a team where the mission moves fast and the scope is broad by design. This is not a role where you pick a lane and stay in it. You'll work across backend, integrations, infrastructure, and tooling — whatever the product needs. If you thrive in environments where ownership is total and the work is never the same twice, this is for you.

- Build and scale the core verification platform — API architecture, verification lifecycle, async processing, event delivery, and production reliability
- Connect and operate external identity providers — building adapters, normalization layers, health monitoring, and the tooling that makes adding the next provider faster than the last
- Build the infrastructure that takes integrated capabilities to proven in production — developer tooling, E2E test infrastructure, reference environments, and go-live systems
- Own quality end to end — you write the tests, you monitor production, you fix what breaks
- Investigate failures independently, identify root causes, and fix the system rather than the symptom
- Work directly with Product, partners, and customers when solving a problem requires it — you're not behind a ticket queue

🧠 Who You Are

- 2–4 years of software engineering experience — what matters is what you've personally owned and operated
- Strong backend fundamentals — comfortable with APIs, distributed systems, async processing, and production reliability; our stack is TypeScript / JavaScript
- Full stack in practice — you go where the problem is, whether that's backend, infrastructure, tooling, or frontend when needed
- You own quality: testing, observability, and operational readiness are part of how you work, not someone else's job
- High ownership, low ego — you drive ambiguous problems to resolution without waiting to be told exactly what to do
- Thrives in a fast-moving environment where the scope is broad and the mission evolves
- Based in Seoul; comfortable working in a global, multicultural, English-first environment

⚡️ Fast Facts

- 💰 $13.5M+ raised from top global investors
- 📦 2.6M+ downloads of our sd-jwt-js library
- 🌍 10+ nationalities across 3 hubs
- 🔬 82 eID research projects completed
- 🌐 3 projects accepted into the OpenWallet Foundation

🎁 Benefits & Culture

- Unlimited PTO
- Remote-friendly work model
- Real ownership from Day 1
- High-impact, global product
- Multicultural, respectful team

🧭 Interview Process

- Recruiter Intro Call (30 min) – Get to know Hopae
- Functional or Technical Interview (45 min) – Dive into your skills
- Culture Fit Conversation (45 min) – Collaboration & alignment
- Offer 🎉

Note: The process may vary slightly depending on the role.

## About Hopae

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hopae builds the world’s most trusted digital identity infrastructure, enabling anyone to instantly prove who they are using government-issued eIDs and secure digital wallets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Seoul, South Korea (with offices in the United States, France, and Germany)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Ace Shim (Co-founder and CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Digital Identity Infrastructure / Software Development
- **Target customers**: B2B — regulated businesses (financial services, gambling, mobility, hospitality, telecoms, e-commerce), trust service providers, eSignature providers, and government entities.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Proving who you are should be instant, secure, and yours to control.” Hopae aims to empower people and businesses with secure, inclusive, and reliable digital identity solutions.

## Products & Services
- **hConnect**: The first global eID verification solution — a single, compliant API that connects enterprises to 65+ government eIDs and trusted credentials worldwide.
- **Wallet SDK**: A ready-to-use, eIDAS 2.0-compliant digital wallet SDK (open-source, developer-friendly) for launching secure identity wallets.
- **Identity Verification API**: A developer-first platform with clear APIs, SDKs, and live sandboxes for fast integration and millions of verifications.
- **eID-as-a-Service**: Full-service digital identity infrastructure for organizations, covering decentralized identity (DID), hybrid verification, and compliance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$7.6M** (including a $4.3M Seed round led by SV Investment Corp, pre-seed from 500 Global, and multiple grants)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: SV Investment Corp (lead), 500 Global, OpenWallet Foundation (growth project), EU Large Scale Pilot — WeBuild Consortium, International Air Transport Association (IATA)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+45% YoY** to 24 employees (as of mid-2026)
  - **4.2M+** SD-JWT-JS library downloads (open-source)
  - **182** eID research studies completed
  - **6x** faster customer onboarding, **98%** time saved on user onboarding
  - Successfully verified **5,000+ national IDs** in 30 minutes for a recent eSports Olympics (PlayID)
  - Expanding into US, EU, and Korea markets with a new US HQ built from $6.5M funding
  - SOC2 and GDPR-ready compliance

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source leadership**: Pioneered SD-JWT-JS (4.2M+ downloads) and drives wallet SDK innovation within the OpenWallet Foundation.
- **Global eID coverage**: Single API connects to 65+ government eIDs across 90+ countries — a unique network effect.
- **eIDAS 2.0 compliance**: Certified for the upcoming EU digital identity regulation, giving it a first-mover advantage in Europe.
- **Developer-first approach**: Robust documentation, live sandboxes, and SDKs make integration fast and scalable.
- **Proven at scale**: Built the backend for COOV (Korea’s COVID-19 vaccination app) with **43 million monthly active users**.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Building US HQ, scaling in Europe (France, Germany), and targeting Korea’s interoperability with EUDI wallet initiatives.
- **Ecosystem partnerships**: Deepening ties with IATA (air travel), WeBuild Consortium (business/payments), and OpenWallet Foundation.
- **Product innovation**: Continuing to develop open-source identity tools, wallet SDKs, and compliance solutions for regulated industries.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring for Product, Engineering, Quality, and Global Operations roles to support growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Coachable, Tenacity, Adaptability” are core values. The team spans 10+ nationalities, emphasizing diversity, transparency, and inclusion.
- **Impact**: Directly shaping the future of digital identity for 1.5 billion people expected to use digital IDs by 2029.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with offices in Seoul, US, France, and Germany. The team is globally distributed.
- **Perks & Engineering Culture**: Developer-first company with open-source ethos; engineers work on cutting-edge cryptography, decentralized identity, and global-scale infrastructure. Strong emphasis on learning, feedback, and ownership.
- **Growth**: 45% YoY headcount growth and active hiring signals a high-growth environment with real career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [hopae.com](https://www.hopae.com/company/about)
2. [hopae.com](https://www.hopae.com/)
3. [hopae.com](https://www.hopae.com/company/career)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hopae)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hopae)

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