Veriff is forming a small, high-leverage team to build agentic AI systems for identity verification, KYA, risk assessment, and automation workflows. As a Founding Software Engineer, you will design and productionize LLM-powered systems that reason, act, and operate safely under compliance constraints.
What You'll Do
- Design and build agentic systems that can use tools
- Design and build agentic systems that can reason across multi-step workflows
- Design and build agentic systems that can operate under strict compliance and safety constraints
- Prototype and productionize LLM-powered workflows
- Build internal evaluation frameworks for agent reliability
- Define system architecture for scalable, secure AI services
- Work closely with product, risk, and compliance teams
- Turn ambiguous ideas into working systems
What We're Looking For
- Strong Systems Engineer
- 6+ years building backend systems in production
- Strong Python experience (FastAPI or similar)
- Experience with distributed systems and async workflows
- Deep understanding of system design and reliability
- Hands on experience building tool using agents
- Hands on experience building multi step reasoning workflows
- Hands on experience building retrieval augmented systems (RAG)
- Hands on experience building multi agent or orchestration systems
- Experience with one or more: LangChain / LangGraph
- Experience with one or more: OpenAI Assistants or Responses API
- Experience with one or more: AutoGen
- Experience with one or more: CrewAI
- Experience with one or more: Semantic Kernel
- You have shipped LLM-powered systems beyond experimentation
Nice to Have
- Experience in fraud, risk, compliance, or identity systems
- Experience building internal AI evaluation pipelines
- Familiarity with vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, etc)
- Experience operating in regulated environments
Technical Stack
Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Golang, React, Kotlin, Swift, Dart, Flutter, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Python-based ML models
Team & Environment
- Team size: small, high-leverage team
- Structure: cross-functional collaboration with product, risk, and compliance teams
Benefits & Compensation
- Flexibility to work from home
- Stock options that ensure your share in our success
- Extra recharge days on top of your annual vacation
- Comprehensive relocation support to Estonia or Spain
- Extensive medical, dental, and vision insurance to ensure you’re feeling great physically and mentally
- Learning and Development & 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
Work Mode
- Global role with flexibility to work from home
- Location options: Estonia, Spain
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!
