We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of backend services that deploy and serve machine learning models in production. You'll work closely with ML Engineers, Platform, and Product teams to build scalable, reliable systems and drive technical direction across multiple teams.
What You’ll Do- Design and drive the long-term architecture of backend services for biometrics and ML model serving.
- Collaborate with core platform and backend teams on organization-wide architectural initiatives.
- Partner with business and engineering teams to design and deliver cross-cutting platform capabilities.
- Lead architectural reviews, mentor engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
- Build and maintain backend services for deploying and serving ML models
- Monitor service reliability, performance, and scalability in production
- Deploy and operate services on AWS using ECS + Fargate, SageMaker, or EC2 + Kubernetes
- Support real-time and batch inference workflows
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Strong expertise in backend development using Java and working knowledge of Python.
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving architectural decisions.
- Working knowledge of Python, especially for ML-related workflows
- Hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., DynamoDB, ECS, EC2, Redis, S3, SageMaker)
- Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools, and experience with CI/CD and production monitoring
- Experience with observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.)
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS, etc.)
- Understanding of how ML models are deployed and served in production
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with MLOps or ML platform engineering.
- Experience with asynchronous programming and event-driven systems.
Jumio Values:
IDEAL: Integrity, Diversity, Empowerment, Accountability, Leading Innovation
Equal Opportunities:
Jumio is a collaboration of people with different ideas, strengths, interests and cultures. We welcome applications and colleagues from all backgrounds and of all statuses.
About Jumio:
Jumio is a B2B technology company dedicated to eradicating online identity fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes to help make the internet safer. We leverage AI, biometrics, machine learning, liveness detection and automation to create solutions that are trusted by leading brands worldwide and respected by industry thought leaders.
Jumio is the leading provider of online identity verification, eKYC and AML solutions. With a global footprint, we’re expanding the team to meet strong client demand across a range of industries including Financial Services, Travel, Sharing Economy, Fintech, Gaming, and others.
Applicant Data Privacy
We will only use your personal information in connection with Jumio’s application, recruitment, and hiring processes, as described in Jumio’s Applicant Privacy Notice. If you have any questions or comments, please send an email to [email protected].
Skills Required
- Strong expertise in backend development using Java
- Working knowledge of Python, especially for ML-related workflows
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving architectural decisions
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (DynamoDB, ECS, EC2, S3, SageMaker)
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Experience with production monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic)
- Understanding of how ML models are deployed and served in production; support for real-time and batch inference
- Experience with Redis
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with MLOps or ML platform engineering
- Experience with asynchronous programming and event-driven systems
What We Do
Jumio helps you know, then trust your customers online. From account opening to ongoing monitoring, the Jumio KYX Platform provides advanced identity proofing, risk assessment and compliance solutions to accurately establish, maintain and reassert trust. Leveraging advanced technology including automation, biometrics, AI/machine learning, liveness detection and no-code orchestration with hundreds of data sources, Jumio helps organizations fight fraud and financial crime, onboard good customers faster and meet regulatory compliance including KYC and AML. Jumio has processed more than 1 billion transactions spanning over 200 countries and territories from real-time web and mobile transactions. Based in Palo Alto, Jumio operates globally with offices in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East and has been the recipient of numerous awards for innovation. Jumio is backed by Centana Growth Partners, Great Hill Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners. For more information, please visit jumio.com.
Why Work With Us
Our IDEAL values of Integrity, Diversity, Empowerment, Accountability and Leading Innovation are the compass setting for our culture. Along with our clear and positive purpose of eliminating fraud our values help to bring together a hugely diverse and globally distributed team to work as #onejumio.
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