Senior Backend Engineer - AI Biometric Verification

SOLANA FOUNDATION; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

VeryAI is hiring a Senior Engineer to own core parts of the platform behind Proof of Reality. You will work directly with our Head of Engineering to set technical direction, take problems from a rough brief to a shipped and monitored system, and raise the bar for how we build. This is a senior seat on a small team.

You make the hard calls, you own what you ship, and you stay with it after launch. Our backend runs on Go, with TypeScript and React/Next.js on the web.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software with ownership after launch.
• Deep experience in Go, plus TypeScript and React fluency.
• Strong API and data modeling judgment for live systems.
• Experience building scalable cloud-based applications.
• Ability to debug across service boundaries with logs and metrics.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development and tools like Claude Code/Codex/Cursor.
• Experience judging AI output and catching errors.
• Track record building a product from zero to one and scaling.

Responsibilities

• Own services end to end, from design and implementation through rollout, monitoring, and documentation.
• Set technical direction on architecture, data models, and APIs, and make sound calls on security and privacy tradeoffs.
• Take ambiguous problems from a rough brief to a shipped system, and decide what to build first and what to leave out.
• Build and harden the backend services and front-end experiences behind our verification platform as the product scales.
• Build out data visibility across the platform, including verification metrics, dashboards, and alerts.
• Ship the developer portal and partner-facing APIs that power customer integrations.
• Put AI agents to work on recurring load like debugging, migrations, and maintenance, and make our internal agents more reliable.
• Review designs and code with a critical eye, including AI-generated code, and set the standard for what ships.
• Mentor and unblock other engineers through code review, clear docs, and good habits.

Skills

Go backend

TypeScript

React

API design

Data modeling

Cloud apps

Debugging

AI-assisted development

Tools

Kubernetes

GitOps

Kafka

Redis

gRPC/protobuf

PostgreSQL

Job description

VeryAI is hiring a Senior Engineer to own core parts of the platform behind Proof of Reality. You will work directly with our Head of Engineering to set technical direction, take problems from a rough brief to a shipped and monitored system, and raise the bar for how we build. This is a senior seat on a small team.

You make the hard calls, you own what you ship, and you stay with it after launch. Our backend runs on Go, with TypeScript and React/Next.js on the web.