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Sr. Software Engineer – Platform Services

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Position Summary

This is a Senior-level individual contributor on the Platform Services team. The team builds the foundational infrastructure that all MeridianLink products depend on: centralized authentication, authorization, user management, and the shared services layer that enables a multi-product SaaS platform to operate as one system.

Platform Services runs lean by design, engineers own their domain deeply, and ship production features with minimal oversight. The immediate focus is federated identity and authorization infrastructure: extending the identity platform, hardening what's already in production, and supporting product teams as they integrate. Over time, the team's scope will expand into platform capabilities that directly support AI product development, including shared backend services that encapsulate cross-product functionality and AI-powered features.

This is a fully remote role.

Key Competencies

What it means to be a Senior Engineer at MeridianLink

Senior individual contributors own their work end-to-end, identify problems before they're surfaced, and make the engineers around them better. Senior engineers at MeridianLink are active, daily users of AI-assisted development tools.

Technical Execution & Delivery

  • Owns features and infrastructure end-to-end: design through production release, limited guidance required

  • Identifies edge cases and failure modes independently within assigned scope

  • Participates actively in code review with constructive, specific feedback

  • Surfaces blockers early rather than waiting for check-ins

Craft & Professionalism

  • Writes tests that catch regressions without over-engineering the suite

  • Monitors shipped work, responds to issues, and follows incidents to resolution

  • Puts institutional knowledge into shared systems rather than individual heads

Identity & Authorization Systems

  • Applies practical knowledge of federated identity standards: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, and JWT

  • Understands how authorization frameworks function: how policies are modeled, enforced, and integrated into upstream and downstream services

  • Reasons clearly about token lifecycle, session management, and the security implications of identity design choices

Platform & Integration Engineering

  • Builds shared services that multiple product teams consume through well-defined APIs

  • Designs with multi-tenant and multi-product constraints in mind: data isolation, tenant-scoped configuration, and cross-product user identity

  • Writes API contracts (REST, event-driven patterns) with attention to versioning, backwards compatibility, and developer experience

Domain Context

  • Develops working knowledge of how identity and access management works across a multi-product lending platform

  • Understands enough about downstream consumers to make good integration design decisions without requiring constant direction

Expected Duties

Identity & Authorization Platform Development

  • Build and extend platform services that manage federated identity, authentication flows, and authorization enforcement across MeridianLink products

  • Implement and maintain integrations with the centralized identity platform (FusionAuth), including token handling, session management, user provisioning, and tenant configuration

  • Support product teams through their integration process: help them understand the platform's contracts, debug issues, and navigate edge cases in multi-tenant identity behavior

  • Build the tooling, documentation, and examples that make those integrations repeatable and self-service over time

Shared Platform Services

  • Design and maintain backend services in C# and Python that expose platform capabilities through clean, versioned APIs

  • Build with multi-product and multi-tenant scenarios as first-class requirements: data isolation, tenant-scoped configuration, and cross-product consistency

  • Participate in API design reviews with attention to contract stability and developer experience for consuming teams

AI-Native Delivery

  • Use AI development tools as an active part of daily workflow: code generation, design exploration, test scaffolding, and investigation

  • Contribute to the team's AI-assisted engineering practices and share what's working

  • Build familiarity with the systems that support AI agent development (LLM gateways, orchestration frameworks, evaluation harnesses) so you're ready to own those capabilities as the team's scope grows

Collaboration & Growing Others

  • Participate in design discussions and code reviews; give and receive feedback constructively

  • Mentor other engineers on the team

  • Contribute to documentation and onboarding materials that reduce tribal knowledge

Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Required

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, delivering features and infrastructure independently in production

  • Proficiency with standard development tooling: Git, Docker, automated testing, and modern scripting languages

  • Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

  • Hands-on experience implementing or integrating with federated identity systems using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, and/or JWT in production applications

  • Practical understanding of authorization frameworks: how policies are modeled, enforced, and integrated into application and platform services

  • Proficiency in C# and Python for backend service development, including modern API frameworks (.NET 10+, FastAPI, or equivalent)

  • Working knowledge of identity protocol mechanics: authorization code flow, token introspection, claims-based access, assertion handling, and SSO logout behavior

  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS patterns, including tenant-scoped configuration and user identity across application boundaries

  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including relevant managed services for networking, compute, and secrets management

Preferred

  • Prior experience working with a commercial or open-source identity platform (FusionAuth, Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, or equivalent) in an engineering capacity

  • Experience modeling and implementing fine-grained authorization: RBAC, ABAC, or policy-based access control systems

  • Prior experience building internal platform capabilities used by other engineering teams

  • Experience in financial services, fintech, or a regulated technology environment

  • Experience building or supporting AI agent systems: orchestration, tool integration, evaluation pipelines, or LLM gateway infrastructure

  • Familiarity with the end-to-end lifecycle of an AI agent, whether internal-facing (developer tooling, automation) or customer-facing (conversational, decisioning)

  • Exposure to SOC 2 or similar compliance frameworks from an engineering perspective

What Success Looks Like

Within the first few months, a successful hire has built enough context on the identity platform to work largely independently on scoped features, is participating meaningfully in code reviews, and has demonstrated the kind of operational ownership that keeps a small team running well. Over time, success is measured by the reliability and maturity of the platform services they own, how much they've reduced the team's dependence on any single person's knowledge, and how effectively product teams can integrate with the identity platform without hands-on support.

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Name, Email, Resume

  • Are you eighteen years of age or older? yes / no
  • May MeridianLink contact your CURRENT or MOST RECENT employer? yes / no
  • May MeridianLink Contact your PAST employers? yes / no
  • Have you ever been fired or asked to resign to avoid being fired from a job? yes / no
  • Can you perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accomodation? yes / no
  • Will you now or in the future require sponsorship (i.e. H-1B visa ect.) to legally work in the United States? yes / no
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  • I understand that as permitted by law, MeridianLink will conduct an investigative consumer report. I understand the scope of this consumer report may include verification of my references, employment history, credit and indebtedness, criminal conviction history, educational and training background and other matters related to my suitability for employment. Upon timely written request to the personnel department of MeridianLink, the nature and scope of the report will be disclosed to me. If I am offered employment with MeridianLink, I understand that the offer will be conditioned on passing a pre-employment drug screen, timely submitting valid documentation that confirms my identity and authorization to work in the United States, and reading and agreeing to comply with the MeridianLink policies as stated in its Employee Handbook. I certify that the answers given by me in this employment application are true, correct and complete. I agree that the company shall not be liable, in any respect, if my employment is terminated because of misstatements or pertinent omissions made by me in this application. Moreover, I understand that all offers of employment are contingent upon passing the company's prescribed credit check and background screen. A copy of this form may be used as the original. The use of results from this form and/or tests will be used for prudent employment decisions. It is agreed and understood that completion of this application does not mean a job opening exists and in no way obligates the company to employ me. In the event of employment, I will comply with all company rules and regulations as established from time to time. I am willing to work all assigned overtime or other special work assignments as requested by the company. I also understand that MeridianLink, Inc. retains the right to amend, modify, add or delete any or all policies or procedures at its sole and absolute discretion. I understand that nothing contained herein is intended to create a contract between the company and me for either employment or the provision of any compensation or benefits. I hereby understand and acknowledge that any employment relationship with this Company is of an “At-Will” nature, which means that the Employee may resign at any time and the Employer may discharge Employee at any time, with or without notice, with or without cause. It is further understood that this ‘At-Will’ employment relationship may not be changed by any written document or by verbal agreement unless such change is specifically acknowledged in writing by an authorized Executive of this Company. During my employment with MeridianLink, Inc. and after my employment ends, I agree not to disclose any confidential or proprietary information regarding operating and trade secrets. CERTIFICATE OF APPLICANT: I certify that all statements made in this application and attachments are true, and I agree and understand that misstatements or omissions of any material fact may be cause for disqualification or dismissal from employment with MeridianLink choose one
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