Software Engineer, Payments Identity Verification

Google LLC; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Google LLC in Sydney, Australia, is seeking a Software Engineer for Payments Identity Verification. You will help architect backend services handling identity verification, integrate with external providers, and partner with teams across Play, Cloud, and Google Pay to streamline user journeys.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, strong knowledge of data structures, and delivering robust, scalable identity solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong foundational knowledge in data structures and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Navigate technical ambiguity to architect robust abstractions for identity requirements.
• Lead design and execution of new system capabilities for complex verification journeys.
• Design resilient integrations with external identity providers for secure, silent verification.
• Partner with downstream teams (Play, Cloud, Google Pay) to integrate infrastructure into user journeys.
• Drive system-wide improvements and own metrics like pass rates and verification duration.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Data structures & algorithms

Job description

Software Engineer, Payments Identity Verification

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• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with cross-functional partners such as User Experience (UX) and Product, refining feature ideas into practical engineering tasks and driving progress.
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Responsibilities

• Navigate technical ambiguity to architect robust abstractions, translating messy, region-specific identity requirements into unified back-end services.
• Lead the design and execution of new system capabilities, evolving our platform to support increasingly complex verification journeys.
• Design resilient integrations with an ecosystem of external identity providers, ensuring reliability and secure, silent data verification.
• Act as a strategic technical partner to downstream engineering teams (e.g., Play, Cloud, and Google Pay), guiding the integration of our infrastructure into their specific user journeys from onboarding to business generation.
• Drive system-wide improvements across the various components that make-up the Identity Verification (IDV) platform, taking ownership of critical engineering metrics like pass rates and verification duration.

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