Senior Python Engineer - Distributed Systems at Veriff in Columbus

Beneath a simple yet elegant user interface lies a complex system of functionalities. Our AI-powered product uses advanced image recognition, facial verification, face recognition, facial anti-spoofing (liveness detection), and behavior analysis to make identity decisions. We help our partners build onboarding processes that ensure good people get things done and bad folks get stopped.

To take our platform to the next level, we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Verification Platform team. This team owns the workflow orchestration engine and the automated verification decisioning pipeline that powers Veriff's core product — and that other product teams across Identity, Fraud, and End User Platform build on top of. Your work will directly determine the reliability, scalability, and capabilities of the flows that thousands of people go through every day.

You'll help us protect honest people online by:

• Designing, building, and operating VP's backend services, including the orchestration engine and the automated decisioning pipeline, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Delivering key orchestration features such as multi-method flow execution, branching and fallback logic, and webhook integrations
• Improving the resilience of production-critical systems — backpressure and idempotency handling, backwards-compatibility testing, SPOF elimination, and end-to-end monitoring
• Participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems to ensure our most critical flows stay healthy
• Driving engineering quality through code reviews, CI practices, runbook documentation, and mentoring teammates

You are the right future Veriffian for the job if you have:

• 5+ years of experience building large-scale backend applications with Python, including event-driven and async architectures with message queues (e.g. SQS or similar)
• Proven ownership of production-critical services — you understand what it means to be on-call and take reliability seriously
• Deep experience designing for resilience in distributed systems: idempotency, backpressure, retries, backwards compatibility
• Strong understanding of modular design approaches and SOLID principles
• Hands-on experience building scalable, maintainable APIs
• Proficiency in a range of testing strategies that ensure robust and reliable software
• Solid understanding of relational database fundamentals
• Familiarity with structured logging and observability practices
• Strong communication skills — you can clearly articulate technical ideas to engineers and non-engineers alike

You're an especially awesome match if you have:

• Experience with workflow or orchestration engines, event-driven systems, Kubernetes, or identity verification domain knowledge.

You can get familiar with our tech stack on StackShare.

Why Veriff?

We are the preferred identity verification platform partner for the world's most innovative growth-driven organizations helping conveniently verify and safeguard users anywhere in the world. We support the broadest number of identity documents from nearly every country and territory in the world — and this is continually increasing! With a diverse team in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Estonia, as well as robust backing and funding from investors including Accel, Alkeon, IVP, Tiger Capital, and Y Combinator, we're dedicated to helping businesses and individuals build a safer and more secure world.

Benefits include:

• Flexibility to work from home
• Stock options that ensure your share in our success
• Extra recharge days on top of your annual vacation
• Extensive medical, dental, and vision insurance to ensure you're feeling great physically and mentally
• Learning & Development and Health and Sports budget that you are free to tailor to your own needs
• Four weeks of fully paid sabbatical leave after reaching your 5th work anniversary

We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Different opinions, perspectives and personalities push us forward. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. We also know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates — so rest assured, whoever you are, we want to hear from you!

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