Senior Software Engineer (SF/NYC)

What you'll do at Persona

• 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

What you'll bring to Persona

• 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.
• Leadership and Independent thinking - You can lead projects and turn around features efficiently, often unblocking yourself if you get stuck. You take on new problems and drive them to impactful solutions while mentoring junior engineers.
• 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. 
• Strategic collaborative spirit - Collaboration isn’t just a buzzword for you; it’s your secret to success. You lead cross-functional teams, leverage the diverse perspectives of your teammates, and sometimes go out of your way to learn other functions to get the job done while driving strategic initiatives.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience with our tech stack: React, Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, Google Cloud (GCP), MySQL, MongoDB