The Role
Designs and scales real-time identity verification services, including APIs, event-driven systems, architecture, CI/CD, observability, and reliability foundations. The role owns technical architecture, raises engineering standards, mentors engineers, collaborates with ML and product teams, and delivers secure, maintainable, high-throughput services for internal and external customers.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Veriff's Biometric Solutions team, we are trying to prove, in real time, that the person on the other side of the screen is real and who they claim to be. Our ML-powered platform uses advanced image recognition, facial verification, face recognition, facial anti-spoofing (liveness detection), and behavior analysis to make identity decisions.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale our real-time verification services, with security, scalability, and maintainability at the core.
You'll help us protect honest people online by:
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale our real-time verification services, with security, scalability, and maintainability at the core.
You'll help us protect honest people online by:
- Owning the design and evolution of the architecture for a strategically critical product area, making the calls that shape scalability, security, and maintainability for years
- Leading transformational architecture work: real-time matching at scale, resilient event-driven services, and the CI/CD and observability foundations that make them dependable
- Setting and raising engineering standards, and mentoring and growing the engineers around you
- Partnering closely with other engineers, ML data scientists, and specialists to turn complex identity problems into working products, and driving cross-functional alignment with product and dependency teams
- Building scalable, maintainable APIs and event-driven services that other teams and external customers depend on
You are the right future Veriffian if you have
- Over 5 years of experience building and operating large-scale applications (ideally in Python)
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, modular design, and SOLID principles, with a track record of architectural ownership
- Experience building scalable, maintainable APIs and working with message-queuing concepts
- Fluency with CI/CD, monitoring, and what it takes to run reliable, high-throughput services in production
- Comfort with a range of testing strategies for robust, reliable software
- A working understanding of relational databases and structured logging systems
- Strong communication and influencing skills, able to align engineers and non-engineers around a technical vision
- A self-starter mindset that balances both tech and product decisions to come up with a balanced outcome for both customers and engineers.
- A history of mentoring engineers and explaining your solutions to non-engineers
Nice to have:
- Some experience working with mobile SDKs (iOS, Android) or Web in React
- Previous experience working on a B2B/SaaS product
You can explore our tech stack on StackShare.
Why Veriff?
We are the preferred identity verification platform partner for the world’s most innovative growth-driven organizations helping conveniently verify and safeguard users anywhere in the world. We support the broadest number of identity documents from nearly every country and territory in the world - and this is continually increasing! With a diverse team in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Estonia, as well as robust backing and funding from investors including Accel, Alkeon, IVP, Tiger Capital, and Y Combinator, we’re dedicated to helping businesses and individuals build a safer and more secure world. We strive to be the benchmark for trust online, and we take pride in being a positive force.
When you join Team Veriff, we offer you the opportunity to have a real impact and advance your career, while looking after you along the way with a range of benefits designed with you in mind. Some of our favorites include...
- Flexibility to work from home
- Stock options that ensure your share in our success
- Extra recharge days on top of your annual vacation
- Comprehensive relocation support to Estonia or Spain
- Extensive medical, dental, and vision insurance to ensure you’re feeling great physically and mentally
- Learning and Development & Health and Sports budget that you are free to tailor to your own needs
- Four weeks of fully paid sabbatical leave after reaching your 5th work anniversary
We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Different opinions, perspectives and personalities push us forward. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. We also know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates - so rest assured, whoever you are, we want to hear from you!
Please be informed that in the final stage of the recruitment process we may request you to go through identity verification. For more information, please see Recruitment Privacy Policy. #SPBTAL #LI-Remote
Skills Required
- Over 5 years of experience building and operating large-scale applications, ideally with Python
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, modular design, and SOLID principles
- Experience with architectural ownership
- Experience building scalable, maintainable APIs
- Experience with message-queuing concepts
- Fluency with CI/CD and monitoring
- Experience operating reliable, high-throughput production services
- Experience with software testing strategies
- Working understanding of relational databases
- Working understanding of structured logging systems
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Experience mentoring engineers and explaining technical solutions to non-engineers
- Experience with mobile SDKs, iOS, Android, or React Web
- Previous experience working on a B2B or SaaS product
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The Company
What We Do
Veriff is the preferred identity verification partner for the world’s biggest and best digital companies, including pioneers in fintech, crypto, gaming and the mobility sectors. We provide advanced technology, deep insights and expertise from our foundation in digital-first Estonia and honed over decades in leading the digital identity revolution.The partner of choice for businesses who need to rapidly and effortlessly verify online users from anywhere in the world, Veriff delivers the widest possible identity document coverage. By supporting government issued IDs from more than 230 countries and territories and with our intelligent decision engine which analyzes thousands of technological and behavioral variables Veriff enables trust from the first hello. With offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Estonia, and robust backing and funding from investors including Accel, Alkeon, IVP, Tiger Capital and Y Combinator, we’re dedicated to helping businesses and individuals build a safer and more secure world. To learn more, visit veriff.com.
