Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Identity Verification

Veriff; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WFH flexibility

Stock options

Recharge days

Relocation assistance

Medical insurance

L&D budget

Sabbatical leave

Job summary

Veriff, a leader in identity verification, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our Biometric Solutions team. You will design and scale real-time verification services, focusing on security, reliability, and maintainability, with architecture ownership and cross-functional collaboration.

You'll mentor engineers, shape engineering standards, and build scalable APIs and event-driven services used by internal teams and external customers, while aligning product goals with technical execution.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale applications (ideally in Python).
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, modular design, and SOLID principles, with architectural ownership.
• Experience building scalable, maintainable APIs and working with message-queuing concepts.
• Fluency with CI/CD, monitoring, and running reliable, high-throughput services in production.
• Comfort with testing strategies for robust, reliable software.
• Understanding of relational databases and structured logging systems.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to align engineers and non-engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own design and evolution of the architecture for a strategically critical product area, shaping scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Lead transformational architecture work: real-time matching at scale, resilient event-driven services, CI/CD and observability foundations.
• Set and raise engineering standards, mentoring and growing engineers.
• Partner with engineers, ML data scientists, and product teams to translate complex identity problems into working products.
• Build scalable, maintainable APIs and event-driven services used by internal teams and external customers.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

SOLID principles

API design

CI/CD

Monitoring & observability

Relational databases

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Message queues

Web services

Logging systems

Job description

Veriff, a leader in identity verification, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our Biometric Solutions team. You will design and scale real-time verification services, focusing on security, reliability, and maintainability, with architecture ownership and cross-functional collaboration.

You'll mentor engineers, shape engineering standards, and build scalable APIs and event-driven services used by internal teams and external customers, while aligning product goals with technical execution.