Software Engineer, Persona
Product
$130-220k
+ Equity
Identity verification infrastructure solution
Open for applications
Identity verification infrastructure solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$130-220k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the ideal identity verification experience for your business and customers.
Role
Who you are
- Product-thinker - You build products in a way that maximizes product value while minimizing complexity. You understand and can resolve tensions between product requirements and engineering design for large-scale projects
- Innovative mindset - You go beyond implementing what is tasked and make product suggestions and features that help push our product forward. You are naturally curious and embrace change
- Independent thinking - You can turn around features within days because you learn from your mistakes quickly, and know how to unblock yourself if you get stuck. You give yourself agency to take on new problems and drive them to impactful solutions
- Perfect is the enemy of good - You take pride in understanding and solving problems as soon as possible, and learn quickly from mistakes in the spirit of growing as an engineer
- Collaborative spirit - Collaboration isn’t just a buzzword for you, it’s your secret to success. You leverage the diverse perspectives of your teammates and sometimes go out of your way to learn other functions to get the job done
- 2+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience with our tech stack: React, Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, Google Cloud (GCP), MySQL, MongoDB
What the job involves
- We’re building both a product and a technology, and we always prioritize acting in a customer-centric way
- In this role, you'll be presented with challenging technical problems, as Persona's product needs are increasingly complex as we balance the ever-changing compliance requirements of our customer base, ranging from small startups to Fortune 10 companies
- You’ll build reliable products and seamless user experiences that will contribute directly to the long-term quality of the Persona product
- Design, build, and ship foundational aspects of the identity platform
- Create innovative solutions that will help fight fraud and delight customers
- Work directly with customers to build product features
- Handle all different types of scale - from helping a new start up automate their manual processes to supporting enterprises with their Super Bowl Sunday scale
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
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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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Founders
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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