Senior Software Engineer

🌍 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 We believe identity should be in your control — not locked behind outdated systems or centralized gatekeepers.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 Senior 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
- Lead projects and technical initiatives — define the approach, align the team, and drive execution through to production
- Mentor junior engineers — through code reviews, pair programming, and direct feedback that raises the bar for everyone
- Participate in the hiring process — interview candidates and help shape the engineering team we're building
- Work directly with Product, partners, and customers when solving a problem requires it — you're not behind a ticket queue

🧠 Who You Are

- 5+ years of software engineering experience — you've personally designed, operated, and taken responsibility for meaningful production systems
- Strong backend fundamentals — APIs, distributed systems, async processing, and production reliability are second nature; 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
- Proven ability to lead projects and technical decisions — you set direction, make trade-offs, and bring others with you
- Natural mentor — you invest in the people around you and make the team better, not just the codebase
- High ownership, low ego — you drive ambiguous problems to resolution without waiting to be told exactly what to do
- 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.

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