About the Company:
World is a network of real humans, built on privacy-preserving proof-of-human technology, and powered by a globally inclusive financial network that enables the free flow of digital assets for all. It is built to connect, empower, and be owned by everyone.
About the Team
World ID is a digital identity and proof of humanity for all humans, created to serve as the foundational identity protocol for the future of the internet in the age of AGI. It is designed from the ground up to be self custodial, secure, decentralized and open, setting a new standard for privacy and transparency.
World ID is being built on ground-breaking innovations in hardware and software, across distributed systems, cryptography, sensors, biometrics, machine learning, blockchains and more, to bring this vision to life.
You will be working with the team that is the driving force behind World ID. We define and build the use cases, core systems and experiences, and developer integrations for World ID and influence the roadmap of technologies needed for full realization of the vision.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We are in the office 5 days a week with circumstantial flexibility and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
The Opportunity
- Expand: Expansion of World ID enrollment through new and enhanced verification modalities, streamlined enrollment, and seamless account management to minimize involuntary churn.
- Engage: Supporting real world use cases for World ID, for example by building SDK and cloud integrations and privacy preserving mechanisms for attesting personal information.
- Excel: Building and influencing development core technologies and infrastructure to maximize security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and velocity for World ID efforts, such as AMPC, trusted execution environments, and self-custodial credentials management.
- Extend: Supporting an open and decentralized World ID platform for third party developers to offer World ID verification, authentication and management without relying on any proprietary technologies, components or single points of failure.
As a Software Engineer on World ID, you will own key software components and design, build, debug, maintain, scale and instrument them for high quality and business objectives, working in close collaboration with product managers, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders.
About You
- You have been designing and developing natively for Android for some time.
- You have a track record of writing exceptional software, tackling hard problems, and coming up with elegant solutions.
- Others consistently vouch for your collaboration, prioritization and organization skills, ability to operate in ambiguous and changing condititions, knack of identifying and relentlessly focussing on the most important things, and getting things done.
- You have a demonstrable history of picking up, mastering and applying new knowledge and skills.
- You express yourself clearly, crisply and simply, in writing and in speech.
- You are, or want to be great at writing secure, reliable, scalable and maintainable software.
By submitting your application, you consent to the processing and internal sharing of your CV within the company, in compliance with the GDPR.
Pay transparency statement (for CA based roles):
The reasonably estimated salary for this role at TFH ranges from $216,000 - $240,000, plus a competitive long term incentive package. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, TFH offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, life insurance, flexible time off, commuter benefits, professional development stipend and much more!
