Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Identity (Remote)

Veriff; España; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home flexibility

Stock options

Recharge days

Relocation support to Estonia or Spain

Medical insurance

L&D & Health budget

Sabbatical after 5 years

Job summary

Veriff seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale real-time verification services with security and maintainability at the core. You will lead architecture work, own scalable APIs, and mentor other engineers across cross-functional teams including ML scientists and product partners.

With 5+ years in large-scale systems and strong Python skills, you will drive reliability, observability, and streaming/event-driven patterns while balancing product needs and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Over 5 years of experience building and operating large-scale applications, ideally in Python.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, modular design, and SOLID principles.
• Experience building scalable APIs and working with message-queuing concepts.
• Fluency with CI/CD, monitoring, and running high-throughput services in production.
• Understanding of relational databases and structured logging systems.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to align engineers and non-engineers.
• Self-starter balancing tech and product decisions for customer and engineer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Owning the design and evolution of the architecture for a strategically critical product area.
• Leading transformational architecture work: real-time matching at scale, resilient event-driven services, and the CI/CD foundations.
• 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.
• Building scalable, maintainable APIs and event-driven services that other teams and external customers depend on.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

SOLID design

APIs

Event-driven

CI/CD & observability

Testing strategies

Relational databases

Structured logging

Communication & mentoring

Job description

Veriff seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale real-time verification services with security and maintainability at the core. You will lead architecture work, own scalable APIs, and mentor other engineers across cross-functional teams including ML scientists and product partners.

With 5+ years in large-scale systems and strong Python skills, you will drive reliability, observability, and streaming/event-driven patterns while balancing product needs and technical excellence.