HYPR, the Identity Assurance Company, helps organizations create trust in the identity lifecycle.  We are a community of bold thinkers and energetic doers who imagined a brand new approach to identity security and, at the same time, are eliminating a pervasive and persistent 60-year old problem – the password. Since being founded in 2014, the company has grown to be the premium provider of authentication security to marquee brands around the globe and are quickly becoming the recognized leader in Identity Assurance. We are looking for exceptional people with the ambition and the will to positively change the world. If that sounds like you, join us on our mission to create a passwordless world and secure the identity lifecycle.

Your Role and Impact 

HYPR is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on challenges and is eager to contribute wherever the team needs them. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain key product components while collaborating with peers and contributing as an individual contributor.

You'll work on HYPR's industry-leading security products, deployed at several Fortune 500 companies. These include:

• Identity verification solution
• Open Standards implementations of passwordless authentication to help customers build secure environments
• W3C-compliant authentication servers
• Next-generation application management and analytics

If you're passionate about security, scalable architectures and impactful engineering, HYPR will be a great fit for you

What you will do in this role

• Design, develop and deploy SaaS services and web front ends, with a focus on scalability and performance
• Own features end-to-end—from understanding requirements and designing solutions to deployment and production support
• Implement comprehensive automated testing at the component level and collaborate with SDET(s).
• Participate in on-call rotation, handling initial triage and escalating if not an SME
• Research new technologies and solutions to improve existing products and explore new directions

Who you are

• Self starter - able to dive into existing products and learn quickly in a fast, hands-on environment
• Team player - collaboration with team members, operations and support teams is critical
• Detail-oriented — takes pride in writing high-quality, maintainable code and following best practices.
• Security-minded — interested in the Cybersecurity domain; previous exposure or participation is a plus.
• Autonomous and accountable—takes ownership of work and drives it to completion. Actively assist in the production support aspects of you work as needed

Required Qualifications

Expert-Level

• Java SE 17+ and Spring
• Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform
• Cloud-first development experience (AWS, Azure or similar)
• Storage: relational and NoSQL (MySQL, Oracle, Dynamo, Redis or similar)

Strong

• Understanding of data structures, clean code, modularity, and design patterns
• Experience designing and scaling distributed services with high reliability, low latency, and clear SLA boundaries
• Comfortable working in complex authentication or identity flows involving multiple services
• Full-stack experience with React or a similar modern frontend framework
• Knowledge of various testing methodologies, including unit and integration testing

Preferred

• Interest in identity verification and authentication standards like OAuth, WebAuthn, PKI and similar
• Experience with computer vision, liveness detection or ML-assisted verification workflows
• Infra As Code (IAC) tool (Terraform, Helm, AWS Cloud formation)

Experience: 

10+ years of development designing, building and maintaining enterprise web based platform that serve over 100K users.  Can be SaaS or On premise.

Education:

BS/MS in computer science or software engineering field. 

What HYPR Offers: 

• All frontend and backend engineers are Senior, you’re joining a team of All Stars who consistently deliver the highest quality code and products in tight timelines
• An organization with a great work life balance. Many of our employees have families and responsibilities outside of the office that they are able to easily meet.
• Extreme product focus, at HYPR you’ll never be spinning your wheels on tasks that do not matter. Everything we develop is cutting edge and important.
• High levels of ownership. We understand that we are able to do our best work when we can bring insights together.
• An emphasis on collaboration and access to giants in the industry. We achieve our best because we employ the best.
• Our engineers use the latest frameworks and language iterations. Our marketing, sales, ops and more utilize the best and latest tools for innovation and scale.

Additional Information

• Full Time Opportunity: Yes
• The core meeting hours for this position are from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Attendance is required for meetings scheduled between 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM. These meetings may be attended remotely via Zoom. Outside of these scheduled meetings, working hours are flexible. 
• This position is a hybrid role. Employees are required to work in the office a minimum of two days per week—specifically Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The remaining workdays offer flexible remote options.

As the premium provider of authentication security, HYPR is committed to preventing identity fraud by safely and accurately verifying the identities of our employees. Accordingly, all new employees are required to participate in an automated identity verification process, which includes document verification, location detection, and facial recognition, on their first day of employment with the Company.  To learn more about this identity verification process,  please contact peopleops@hypr.com.

HYPR, the Identity Assurance Company, helps organizations create trust in the identity lifecycle.  We are a community of bold thinkers and energetic doers who imagined a brand new approach to identity security and, at the same time, are eliminating a pervasive and persistent 60-year old problem – the password. Since being founded in 2014, the company has grown to be the premium provider of authentication security to marquee brands around the globe and are quickly becoming the recognized leader in Identity Assurance. We are looking for exceptional people with the ambition and the will to positively change the world. If that sounds like you, join us on our mission to create a passwordless world and secure the identity lifecycle.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Product Owner to manage a portfolio of products and drive execution from solution exploration through development and delivery/release. This role partners closely with Product Management, Product Design, Product Documentation, Engineering, QA, and Customer Support to ensure high‑quality outcomes and predictable delivery. The ideal candidate is hands‑on, detail‑oriented, and thrives in fast‑paced Agile environments.

Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of experience as a Product Owner 
• Proven experience managing multiple products or a product portfolio
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices (SAFe/Scrum/Kanban)
• Excellent communication, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working with cross‑functional teams across geographies/time zones

Core Responsibilities

Feature Backlog Ownership

• Own and maintain a prioritized, ordered product backlogs
• Break epics into well‑defined user stories with Product Managers
• Ensure all backlog items communicate clear user and business value
• Define explicit acceptance criteria
• Identify and manage inter‑team and cross‑product dependencies
• Regularly prunes outdated, low‑value, or redundant backlog items

Sprints & Schedules

• Lead backlog refinement (grooming) sessions
• Actively participates in sprint planning
• Answer scope and requirement questions in real time during development
• Maintain sprint focus and guards against scope creep
• Review estimates, capacity, and schedules with product leadership
• Proactively escalate delays, risks, and blockers to Product and Engineering leadership

Acceptance & Quality

• Validate stories against defined acceptance criteria
• Review completed work with Engineering and QA
• Formally accept or reject stories
• Capture learnings and outcomes to inform backlog reprioritization
• Enable internal use initiatives (aka dogfood)
• Enable customer betas / external releases (test flight, beta mgmt.)
• Contribute to retrospectives on bugs and quality issues, including root‑cause analysis

Delivery & Go/No-Go Metrics

• Define release exit criteria and go/no‑go metrics in partnership with Engineering, Product, and Leadership
• Ensure end‑user documentation is drafted, reviewed, and ready for release, including how‑to guides, configuration steps, known limitations
• Ensure internal documentation is updated and current, including:
• Operational runbooks, Known issues. Escalation paths
• Ensure Customer Support enablement, including:
• Knowledge base (KB) articles, Feature overviews, Common questions. Known issues and workarounds
• Ensure release enablement assets are prepared and delivered, including:
• Release notes, feature flags, rollout and enablement instructions

Tools & Technology

• Agile and product management tools such as Aha!, Jira, and Confluence

What Success Looks Like

• Backlogs are consistently prioritized, refined, and execution‑ready
• Delivery timelines are predictable and risks are surfaced early
• Releases meet defined exit criteria and go/no‑go metrics
• Quality issues decrease over time through clear acceptance and root‑cause learning
• Stakeholders have confidence in delivery and visibility across the product portfolio

Additional Information

• Full Time Opportunity: Yes
• The core meeting hours for this position are from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Attendance is required for meetings scheduled between 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM. These meetings may be attended remotely via Zoom. Outside of these scheduled meetings, working hours are flexible. 
• This position is a hybrid role. Employees are required to work in the office a minimum of two days per week—specifically Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The remaining workdays offer flexible remote options.

As the premium provider of authentication security, HYPR is committed to preventing identity fraud by safely and accurately verifying the identities of our employees. Accordingly, all new employees are required to participate in an automated identity verification process, which includes document verification, location detection, and facial recognition, on their first day of employment with the Company.  To learn more about this identity verification process,  please contact peopleops@hypr.com.