Senior Backend Engineer, Trust Platform (Remote)

Consultancy Industry

United States

Remote

USD 104,000 - 174,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Veriff is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Trust team. You will build and operate backend services that validate identity data against country sources, expanding global coverage while maintaining reliability and performance.

You will own API design, data modelling, and testing strategies across distributed systems. You will work on onboarding new countries, building abstractions to simplify integrations, and ensuring end-to-end reliability through monitoring, timeouts, retries, and

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building backend applications using Python.
  • Experience with event-driven and async architectures with message queues.
  • Proven ownership of production-critical services and on-call responsibilities.
  • Design for resilience in distributed systems (timeouts, retries, idempotency, backpressure).
  • Strong data modelling to unify heterogeneous external data sources.

Responsibilities

  • Designing, building, and operating Trust backend services with external data sources.
  • Expanding global coverage by onboarding new countries and data sources.
  • Modeling messy upstream data into clean domain models.
  • Ensuring system resilience and observability across providers.

Skills

Python backend
Event-driven
On-call experience
Resilient systems
Data modelling
SOLID design
APIs
Testing strategies
Relational DB
Observability
Communication

Job description

Veriff is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Trust team. You will build and operate backend services that validate identity data against country sources, expanding global coverage while maintaining reliability and performance.

You will own API design, data modelling, and testing strategies across distributed systems. You will work on onboarding new countries, building abstractions to simplify integrations, and ensuring end-to-end reliability through monitoring, timeouts, retries, and

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