Senior Backend Engineer

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🕒 May 15

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Verifymy

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

📋 Compliance

💰 $6.2M Funding Round - VerifyMy on 2023-09

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Compliance

Verifymy is a safety technology provider that offers age verification, age estimation, identity verification and content moderation solutions to help businesses create safe, compliant online experiences. Their offerings—delivered via APIs and integrations—include email-based age estimation, facial age estimation, government ID and face matching, credit-card and phone verification, and AI-supported content moderation and identity checks, prioritising privacy-preserving AI models and regulatory compliance while minimising user friction.

📋 Description

• Design and implement robust, scalable verification systems and APIs • Lead architectural decisions for identity verification workflows and data processing pipelines • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical standards and best practices • Drive code reviews and ensure high-quality, secure code across the platform • Build and maintain core backend verification services, including document verification, biometric matching, and fraud detection systems • Develop backend integrations with third-party identity providers, government databases, and verification services • Design and implement scalable data processing pipelines and workflow engines • Optimise system performance and reliability to handle high-volume verification requests • Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for backend services • Ensure all backend systems meet stringent security requirements and compliance standards (SOC 2, GDPR, UK GDPR, etc.) • Implement data encryption, secure storage, and privacy-preserving technologies in backend services • Collaborate with security teams on threat modelling and vulnerability assessments • Stay current with identity verification regulations and industry standards • Work closely with product managers to translate business requirements into robust backend technical solutions • Collaborate with ML/AI teams on improving verification accuracy and fraud detection through backend service integration • Participate in on-call rotations and backend incident response procedures • Contribute to technical roadmap planning and backend technology evaluation

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in a senior role • Experience with modern backend technologies (Go, Python, Java, Node.js, or similar) • Experience building high-availability, high-performance systems at scale • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and CDN management • Extensive experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices architectures • Understanding of encryption, authentication protocols (OAuth, SAML), and secure coding practices • Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking • Excellent communication skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams • Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives • Adaptability and comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays • Enhanced sick leave • Work-from-Anywhere for up to 20 days per year • Gender-Neutral enhanced parental leave • Mental wellbeing support • Monthly wellbeing allowance • Annual learning & development allowance • Cycle to work scheme • Nursery scheme