Senior Backend Engineer, Verification Platform (Remote)

WeHireYou; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home

Stock options

Recharge days

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Learning & Development budget

Sabbatical leave

Job summary

Veriff is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Verification Platform team. You will own backend services, including the orchestration engine and automated decisioning pipeline, ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

You will work on on-call rotations, incident response, and mentoring teammates, while delivering key features and improving system resilience across distributed services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building large-scale backend applications in Python with event-driven and async architectures.
• On-call ownership and reliability focus in production systems.
• Designing for resilience: idempotency, backpressure, retries, backward compatibility.
• Strong understanding of modular design and SOLID principles.
• Experience building scalable, maintainable APIs and robust tests.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases and structured logging/observability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate VP backend services including orchestration engine and decisioning pipeline.
• Deliver orchestration features like multi-method flow execution and webhook integrations.
• Improve resilience with backpressure handling, idempotency, testing, and monitoring.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems.
• Mentor teammates and drive engineering quality through code reviews and CI.

Skills

Python

Event-driven architecture

Async programming

Reliability engineering

SOLID design

APIs

Testing strategies

Relational databases

Observability/logging

Communication

Tools

SQS

Kubernetes

Job description

Veriff is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Verification Platform team. You will own backend services, including the orchestration engine and automated decisioning pipeline, ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

You will work on on-call rotations, incident response, and mentoring teammates, while delivering key features and improving system resilience across distributed services.