Software Engineer Intern, Persona
Summer 2025
$8,000 - $9,000 a month
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3+ days a week in office
Identity verification infrastructure solution
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Identity verification infrastructure solution
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$8,000 - $9,000 a month
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the ideal identity verification experience for your business and customers.
Role
Who you are
- Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's in computer science, engineering, math, or related discipline with a strong CS background
- Previous programming experience is a must. While we use Ruby/Rails, Typescript, React, Redux, Android, iOS, and Python, we care more about engineering skills than knowledge of specific languages or frameworks
- Proficiency in full-stack development, previous experience with data modeling and schema design
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively to execute projects and adhere to deadlines - Eager to discuss positive and negative feedback regarding large projects
- You thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment
What the job involves
- This is not your typical engineering internship
- During your internship, you'll have opportunities for ownership that will significantly build your confidence as a software engineer
- At one of the fastest-growing startups in technology, you'll ship code as early as your first week
- You'll receive dedicated 1:1 mentorship, along with challenging technical assignments, novel product feature work, and many opportunities to stretch your technical skills unlike ever before
- We’re building both a product and a technology, but doing whatever it takes isn’t always straightforward
- This role will help show you how to build the correct systems for scale, while also building something that customers want
- Build and ship: You'll design foundational aspects of the identity platform
- Partner with customers: Work directly with customers to understand their pain points and build product features for them. You’re in the driver's seat to get your project in front of real customers
- See (and ship) scale: Handle both first-time and long-time customers running a CSV data test at Super Bowl Sunday scale
- Cross-team collaboration: Discuss the unique aspects of your projects with teams such as product, design, post-sales, and sales
- Continuous learning: Work with your mentor and a close-knit team to ensure your learnings from past projects are brought into future projects, helping you grow quickly as an engineer
Our take
Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, fostering trust in online interactions and aiding in age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailored flows for any use case
Businesses and governmental organizations can access Persona’s platform via an API, which supports various documents from government-issued IDs to biometrics, ensuring customers are who they claim to be. Persona’s platform also collects passive signals such as a user’s device, location, and behavioral patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts
Recently, Persona partnered with Member Driven Technologies (MDT) to enhance identity verification for credit unions. This partnership enables credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time based on risk signals, improving user conversion and fraud deterrence. The collaboration aims to streamline operations and strengthen fraud prevention, both digitally and in branches. Since founding, Persona has been scaling its offerings and now boasts a worldwide presence, serving clients in nearly every country and supporting 20 languages.
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40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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"Everyone who I have met and worked with so far have been intelligent and welcoming, and I feel like I can dive in and ask for help from anyone at..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $217.6m
Company benefits
- Professional Development
- Catered meals
- Wellness benefit
- 401(k)
- Unlimited time off
- Parental benefits
- Mental health
- Health and wellness
- Bevsday (free drink on Wednesday)
- Family planning
Company values
- People first. We will not make decisions that are good for the business but are not good for people — whether those people are our customers, their customers, or our team.
- Pursue relentlessly high standards. We hold ourselves to a high bar today and a higher one tomorrow. While we celebrate our wins, we constantly strive to raise the bar.
- Lead by serving. We share early and often to push our work forward, creating a space where it’s ok to ask questions and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Work in public. We encourage collaboration and transparency, sharing early and often to push our work forward. We create a space that makes others comfortable to ask questions, share unfinished thoughts, and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Start small, think big. Starting small allows us to provide value while learning lessons without losing sight of our vision.
- Speed is not a tradeoff. Speed is important, but so is quality. We strive to find ways to optimize and increase both. Going fast does not imply that our quality will suffer. Instead, it means we focus on being more efficient while continuing to operate at a high level.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Rick Song
(CEO)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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