Senior Software Engineer – Verification Platform

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design, build and operate VP's backend services, including the orchestration engine and the automated decisioning pipeline, with a focus on reliability, scalability and maintainability
• ▹Deliver orchestration features such as multi-method flow execution, branching and fallback logic, and webhook integrations
• ▹Improve resilience of production-critical systems: backpressure and idempotency handling, backwards-compatibility testing, SPOF elimination and end-to-end monitoring
• ▹Participate in on-call rotations, incident response and postmortems
• ▹Drive engineering quality through code reviews, CI practices, runbook documentation and mentoring teammates

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience building large-scale backend applications with Python, including event-driven and async architectures with message queues (e.g. SQS or similar)
• ▹Proven ownership of production-critical services and on-call experience
• ▹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 with engineers and non-engineers alike

Nice to have

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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Flexibility to work from home
• ▹Stock options
• ▹Extra recharge days on top of annual vacation
• ▹Extensive medical, dental and vision insurance
• ▹Learning and Development and Health and Sports budget, freely tailored
• ▹Four weeks of fully paid sabbatical leave after the 5th work anniversary

About the company

Veriff offers an AI-powered identity verification platform using image recognition, facial verification, liveness detection and behavior analysis for identity decisions. Its teams are located in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain and Estonia.