Responsibilities
- Own the design and evolution of the architecture for a strategically critical product area, making decisions that shape scalability, security, and maintainability for years
- Lead transformational architecture work: real-time matching at scale, resilient event-driven services, and the CI/CD and observability foundations that make them dependable
- Set and raise engineering standards, and mentor and grow the engineers around you
- Partner closely with other engineers, ML data scientists, and specialists to turn complex identity problems into working products, and drive cross-functional alignment with product and dependency teams
- Build scalable, maintainable APIs and event-driven services that other teams and external customers depend on
Requirements
- Prior experience building and operating large-scale applications (ideally in Python)
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, modular design, and SOLID principles, with a track record of architectural ownership
- Experience building scalable, maintainable APIs and working with message-queuing concepts
- Fluency with CI/CD, monitoring, and what it takes to run reliable, high-throughput services in production
- Comfort with a range of testing strategies for robust, reliable software
- A working understanding of relational databases and structured logging systems
- Strong communication and influencing skills, able to align engineers and non-engineers around a technical vision
- A self-starter mindset that balances both tech and product decisions to come up with a balanced outcome for both customers and engineers
- A history of mentoring engineers and explaining your solutions to non-engineers
Nice to Have
- Experience working with mobile or web SDKs (iOS, Android, Web)
- Previous experience working on a B2B/SaaS product
Benefits
- 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 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 Arrangement
Hybrid — United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Estonia
Team
Structure: Biometric Authentication team
Additional Information
- Equal Opportunities employer committed to a diverse and representative team
- Confidence gap and imposter syndrome should not deter candidates from applying
- In the final stage of recruitment, identity verification may be requested
