Senior Backend Developer, IAM

Verda; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Verda is building a fully featured European cloud computing platform powered by 100% renewable energy. The role focuses on back-end engineering, IAM technologies, and scalable microservices within a hybrid work model in London or Helsinki.

You will shape Verda’s IAM platform, work on large-scale resource planning systems, and collaborate with SREs and data-center teams. A strong emphasis on Go, TypeScript, RESTful APIs and TDD guides daily work.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience as a Back-end engineer.
• Strong knowledge of IAM and related technologies (OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, SAML 2.0, JWT, RBAC, ReBAC, MFA, TOTP, Passkeys, FIDO2).
• Proficiency with Go, including web APIs, concurrency and caching.
• Experience with TypeScript (Node & React).
• Experience with designing, building, and maintaining micro-service architectures and workflows.
• Proficiency in SQL databases and designing scalable data models.
• Experience with maintaining public RESTful APIs.
• TDD-based way of working with testcontainers-like setups.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and DevOps practices is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Shaping Verda’s IAM platform and its evolution across products.
• Work on large-scale resource planning systems and internal tooling.
• Collaborate with SREs and data center teams to build fast, robust APIs.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, test coverage and deployments.
• Apply information security principles to engineering decisions.
• Communicate with team leads and stakeholders.

Skills

Back-end engineering

IAM technologies

Go programming

TypeScript

Microservices

SQL databases

RESTful APIs

TDD

Kubernetes familiarity

Tools

Node.js

React

Job description

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to powerful computing resources. We're building a fully featured European cloud computing platform - with everything one needs to run, scale, and deploy applications and workloads. In addition, our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy.

We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!

Your Responsibilities

• Participating in shaping Verda’s IAM platform evolves and how it stretches through our diverse product portfolio.
• Work on large-scale resource planning systems and internal tooling, possibility to contribute to codebase across multiple services and products
• Work closely with SRE engineers and data center team to build APIs for fast and robust resource provisioning.
• Participate in improving the CI/CD pipelines, test coverage and deployments.
• Pay close attention to information security principles, and use them to drive engineering decisions.
• Communicate with internal team leads and other stakeholders

Your key competencies

• 3-5 years of experience as a Back-end engineer.
• Strong knowledge of IAM and related technologies, including OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, SAML 2.0, JWT, RBAC, ReBAC, MFA, TOTP, Passkeys and FIDO2. Experience with Workload/machine identities or service accounts is a plus.
• Proficiency with Go, including web APIs, concurrency, performance optimization and caching.
• Experience with TypeScript (we use Node & React).
• Experience with designing, building, and maintaining micro-service architectures and workflows.
• Proficiency in working with SQL databases and designing scalable data models, including familiarity with Go database tooling.
• Experience with maintaining public RESTful APIs.
• TDD-based way of working, working with testcontainers-like test setups rather than mocking with interfaces.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and DevOps practices is a plus.

Practicalities

• Hybrid mode: This role requires presence in our Helsinki or London office 3 days per week.
• Employment type: Full-time and permanent.

What's Next

We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move.