Senior Software Engineer (Web SDK & iPortal)
About iProov
iProov provides science-based biometric solutions that enable the world's most security-conscious organizations to streamline secure remote onboarding and authentication for digital and physical access. Our award-winning liveness technology and iSOC offer unmatched resilience against deepfakes and generative AI threats while ensuring effortless, scalable user experiences. Trusted by leading governments and enterprises, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.K. Home Office, GovTech Singapore, ING, and UBS, iProov sets the standard in biometric identity assurance.
This global trust is built not only on our technology but on the strength of the people behind it. For us, diversity at iProov is about reflecting the customers we serve, holding the principles of equality and inclusion at the heart of everything we do and all that we stand for, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together. We aim to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included, and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to our purpose.
The Role
Reports to:
Head of Web & iPortal Development
Location:
WeWork Waterloo, London - Hybrid
Comp:
Up to £85k (Base) + Company Performance Bonus (10%) + Share Options + UK iProov Benefits
iProov's Web SDK is pushing the boundaries of what is possible with web technologies today. The Web SDK provides a widely available, usable product that forms part of a system that delivers a number of social benefits to society, from remote onboarding to banks and healthcare to safe authentication for national infrastructure and services. Our vision is to provide this experience with native-level performance across the broadest range of devices possible.
As with any interactive experience on the web, we know this is a challenging environment in which to deliver an SDK: it needs to fit into our customer's app framework and work in a variety of configurations; it's a rewarding feeling when we thread the needle through and watch how our releases perform on our dashboards and monitoring systems.
How you can make an impact
* Applying deep technical expertise of emerging technologies to provide insight and technical leadership to promote new ideas.
* Owning the responsibility with the technical lead for planning and execution of complex feature deliveries.
* Providing hands-on technical contribution in a way that embodies our company values - focusing on achieving the remarkable and working as a team.
* Working with our product, science, platform and customer success teams to ensure we're delivering the best service and building the best products.
* Fostering the technical team's culture of innovation, iteration and inquisitiveness.
* Maintaining a deep understanding of technology and customers trends and opportunities
* Designing quality standards and driving teams to achieve Quality Excellence across iProov products
* Embedding a culture of collaboration, learning and empowerment
* Shaping the engineering culture by implementing best development practices
What we would like to see from you
* Expert knowledge of vanilla JavaScript/TypeScript
* Understanding of WebAssembly
* Deep understanding of web security issues
* Significant hands-on experience with React
* Experience at developing services (RESTful API) including strong authentication (using JWT, 3rd party identity provider, etc), ORM and SQL or NoSQL (document oriented) databases
* Commercial experience designing and building CI/CD, CDNs, RESTful APIs
* Strong experience writing easily testable code (e.g. using dependency injection)
* Experience in cloud technologies (GCP preferred), IaC (e.g. Terraform), containers, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), virtualisation and web servers
* Experience building software that scale
* Ability to share knowledge and mentor other team members
Benefits
* 25 days Annual Leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (more holiday with service - up to an extra 5 days off per year based on your continuous service)
* Growth Shares allocated after passing probation (6 months of service)
* Salary sacrifice schemes including: Pension, Cycle To Work and Electric Car Scheme
* Nursery Sacrifice Scheme
* Work Overseas Perk - Work globally for up to 2 weeks
* Life Assurance
* SmartHealth - Access to private GP, Psychologist, Nutritionist along with tailored fitness plans for both you and your family
* Award winning L&D platform with personal allocated training budgets
* Benefit from personalized 1:1 career coaching with our in-house Occupational Psychologist
* Enhanced paid family leave
* Pension - 5% employee, 3% employer
* Flexible hybrid working environment
* Free Barista Coffee/Tea, biscuits with fruit in the WeWork office
* Free access to WeWork discounts and free online well-being sessions
* Vitality Health - a range of options available on this below
The Vitality Programme includes a number of reward benefits that all employees have access to as part of the plan, for example:
* Private Health cover including Dental, Optical, and Audiology
* 50% off monthly gym memberships
* Apple watches significantly discounted based member vitality status
* Half price trainers with Runners Need
* Weekly rewards – Free coffee with Café Nero
* Monthly rewards – Free Cinema ticket
* Discounts on travel with Expedia (hotels) and Mr & Mrs Smith with discounts getting greater throughout the year based on a members vitality status
* Amazon prime free months based on activity
* Up to 25% cashback at Waitrose when buying healthy foods
* 75% off stays at Champneys Health Spas
* Allen Carr's £299 no smoking programme for free
* Access to Vitality Healthy Mind with 30% off Headspace subscriptions and the ability to earn Vitality points for using Buddhify, Calm and Headspace
* Discounts on Weight Watchers
* 50%-80% off Comprehensive Private Health screenings
Our Culture & Recruitment Process
At iProov, we're incredibly proud of the culture we've carefully curated. Our culture enables diverse thought, curiosity and innovation. Our team strives to do everything to the highest standard possible to achieve the remarkable. To do that we need different perspectives, experiences and ideas alongside an environment where these are welcomed - we want everyone to feel confident in bringing their full capabilities to work. We firmly believe psychological safety is key to building and nurturing great teams. We're a small and dynamic company, that means having the right skills is important, and we know that our best work emerges when people feel secure, welcomed and respected.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We're committed to building a workforce that is representative of the people we serve. We will not put someone at a disadvantage or treat them less favourably because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.
Our recruitment process is designed to be fair and transparent, focusing solely on your qualifications, competence, and suitability for the role. We review all applications carefully and will be in touch with shortlisted candidates regarding the next steps in our interview process. If you need an adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to