Senior Software Engineer (Trust)

Responsibilities

• 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 Trust team. This team builds and operates the services that validate a person's identity data against country-specific authoritative sources — government registries, national databases, AML and sanctions screening — and turns that patchwork of very different upstreams into a single, dependable trust signal our customers can act on. Alongside sibling teams like Trust Registries and Trusted Documents, your work directly determines how many countries we can cover, how fast we can launch a new one, and how much our partners can rely on the answer we give them.
• Designing, building, and operating Trust's backend services — the integrations with external identity data sources and the validation logic on top of them — with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Expanding our global coverage: onboarding new countries and data sources quickly, and building the abstractions that make the next integration cheaper than the last one instead of more expensive
• Handling sensitive personal data responsibly, with regional data residency and compliance requirements designed in from the start
• 5+ years of experience building large-scale backend applications with Python, including event-driven and async architectures with message queues (e.g. SQS, RabbitMQ, or similar)
• Deep experience designing for resilience in distributed systems: idempotency, retries, backpressure, timeouts, backwards compatibility
• Strong understanding of modular design approaches and SOLID principles
• Hands-on experience building scalable, maintainable APIs
• 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. We strive to be the benchmark for trust online, and we take pride in being a positive force.

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