Senior Software Engineer - Verification Platform

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design, build and operate the Verification Platform's backend services, including the orchestration engine and decisioning pipeline
• ▹Deliver orchestration features: multi-method flow execution, branching and fallback logic, webhook integrations
• ▹Improve resilience of production-critical systems: backpressure and idempotency handling, backwards-compatibility, SPOF elimination, monitoring
• ▹Participate in on-call rotations, incident response and postmortems
• ▹Drive engineering quality through code reviews, CI practices, runbook documentation and mentoring

Requirements

• ▹5+ years building large-scale backend applications in Python, including event-driven and async architectures
• ▹Proven ownership of production-critical services, understanding what it means to be on-call
• ▹Deep experience designing for resilience in distributed systems: idempotency, backpressure, retries, backwards compatibility
• ▹Strong understanding of modular design approaches and SOLID principles
• ▹Hands-on experience building scalable, maintainable APIs
• ▹Proficiency in a range of testing strategies
• ▹Solid understanding of relational database fundamentals
• ▹Familiarity with structured logging and observability practices
• ▹Strong communication skills, able to articulate technical ideas clearly

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with workflow or orchestration engines, event-driven systems
• ▹Kubernetes experience
• ▹Identity verification domain knowledge

Soft skills

About the company

Veriff is a leading identity verification platform supporting the broadest number of identity documents worldwide, with teams in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain and Estonia.