# Senior Software Engineer - Verification Platform at Veriff

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> Responsibilities: - Design, build and operate backend servic

- **Company:** Veriff (https://jobs.trythestack.co/companies/veriff)
- **Location:** Spain, ES
- **Work arrangement:** Remote
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Experience level:** 5–10 years
- **Visa sponsorship:** Offered, according to the listing
- **Key skills:** Python, event-driven architectures, asynchronous programming, message queues (SQS or similar), on-call / incident response, reliability engineering, distributed systems, idempotency, backpressure, RESTful APIs, relational databases, Kubernetes
- **Posted by employer:** 2026-11-02
- **Added to The Stack:** 2026-11-03
- **Listed until:** 2027-01-01
- **Status:** Active
- **Apply:** https://www.veriff.com/careers/position/8609896002?gh_jid=8609896002&gh_src=187ceebb2us (the employer's own application page)
- **Human page:** https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs/senior-software-engineer-verification-platform-veriff

## About the role

Responsibilities:
- Design, build and operate backend services for the orchestration engine and automated verification decisioning pipeline.
- Deliver orchestration features: multi-method flow execution, branching/fallback logic and webhook integrations.
- Improve resilience: idempotency, backpressure handling, retries, SPOF elimination and backwards-compatibility testing.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, postmortems and runbook creation.
- Drive engineering quality via code reviews, CI practices, observability and mentoring teammates.

Requirements:
- 5+ years building large-scale backend applications with Python, including event-driven and async architectures.
- Hands-on experience with message queues (SQS or similar) and designing for production reliability.
- Proven ownership of production-critical services and familiarity with on-call duties.
- Deep understanding of distributed-systems resilience patterns (idempotency, backpressure, retries).
- Strong API design, testing strategy knowledge and relational database fundamentals.
- Good communication skills to explain technical decisions to engineers and non-engineers; experience with workflow engines, Kubernetes or identity verification is a plus.

## Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate Veriff's Verification Platform backend services, focusing on the orchestration engine and the automated decisioning pipeline. Deliver key orchestration features such as multi-method flow execution, branching, and webhook integrations. Improve production resilience and reliability through on-call participation, incident response, and monitoring.

## Requirements

5+ years of backend experience with Python, including event-driven and async architectures and message queues. Proven ownership of production-critical services, with strong knowledge of distributed systems, testing, and relational databases. Familiarity with structured logging and observability practices and the ability to communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

## FAQ

- **Is this Senior Software Engineer - Verification Platform role still open?** It was posted on 2026-11-02 and is listed as active on The Stack. Confirm on Veriff's application page before applying.
- **Does Veriff offer visa sponsorship?** This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Veriff's site.
- **Where is this role located?** The listing gives the location as Spain, ES. It is marked remote.
- **What skills does this role ask for?** The listing names: Python, event-driven architectures, asynchronous programming, message queues (SQS or similar), on-call / incident response, reliability engineering, distributed systems, idempotency, backpressure, RESTful APIs, relational databases, Kubernetes.

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