Python Job: Staff Software Engineer

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Company

Onfido
Portugal

Location

Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)

Job type

Full-Time

Python Job Details

Onfido is the new identity standard for the internet. We empower people around the globe to reach services they love and need simply, speedily and safely – whether they’re renting a car or opening a bank account or completing a high-value transaction where identity is key. We built a full-service suite of AI-powered identity verification solutions with fairness and inclusiveness at their core, and were awarded ‘Outstanding Leader in Accessibility’ and ‘Best Innovation in Algorithmic Bias Mitigation’ awards at CogX.

Onfido is an established pre-IPO technology company with a prominent position in the global marketplace that has been repeatedly recognized for excellence in performance and innovation. In 2021 we were awarded ‘Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Hot Company’ by CyberDefense Global Infosec Awards, ‘Fraud Prevention Innovation of the Year’ at the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards, and named to the CB Insights Fintech 250 for the fourth year running. We've received over $200 million in funding from investors including TPG Growth, Microsoft, and Salesforce to achieve our vision. We partner with thousands of businesses to help millions access services every week – from billion dollar institutions to hypergrowth unicorns. We support identities from 195 countries, and 2,500+ document types. Our recent growth is fuelled by continued increasing demand in the United States – where we’ve grown in year-over-year sales by 264% – as more enterprise organisations accelerate their digital transformation plans with Onfido.

Our goal is to work together to promote and celebrate an inclusive and diverse community. Collectively, all Onfidoers are committed to creating an environment where everyone can be themselves, and where differences are celebrated. We encourage people from all backgrounds and cultures to come together to solve some of the world's most interesting problems.

Onfido’s goal is to work together to promote and celebrate an inclusive and diverse community. Collectively, all Onfidoer’s are committed to creating an environment where everyone can be themselves and where differences are celebrated. We encourage people from all backgrounds and cultures to come together and where neuro diversity is understood.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team and help design, scale and innovate our world-class platform for verifying identities globally.

We have a unique set of exciting engineering challenges with a fast-growing customer base. As a key member of our engineering team, you will help define the evolution of our technical architecture and our product. You will be instrumental in driving key innovation to our platform over the coming years.

As a principal engineer you’ll be interacting with many parts of our technology and the wider organisation.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Onfido you will be involved in:

  • Architecture - take a leading role in defining and building the technical architecture that underpins our platform.
  • Scale, Stability & Performance - design and deliver solutions that will scale with significant volumes, be highly available, performant and resilient. We’re on a rapid growth trajectory and have interesting problems to solve to ensure our service stays robust and delivers a good service to our customers.
  • Ownership - take ownership of solutions, taking them all the way through delivery to adoption by engineering teams.
  • Innovation & Continuous Improvement - identify and drive areas for technical innovation through activities like building proof of concepts. Drive a culture of continuous improvement whether that be through process or new technologies.
  • Advisory and Leadership - be a technical expert that the team can refer to for advice or validation of a solution
  • Technical Standards - help to set some of the engineering standards and best practices to be followed by engineers. Our team is growing as is the codebase - we want to set the best standards as early as possible - helping our developer productivity and making code easy to read and understand.

Our Technology Stack:

  • Python, Ruby, and Elixir for our service code
  • React and Redux for frontend work
  • Tensorflow for ML/CV
  • Kubernetes and Docker to package and run services
  • AWS and Terraform for underlying infrastructure

As an architect, you will help influence some of these decisions, create solutions using these and also help us set best practices for these tools.

You can learn more about our product engineering team and the work we do on our blog.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who has:

  • Strong background as a Software Engineer
  • Extensive Experience of designing complex solutions and microservice architectures
  • Proven experience of leading engineers on large, cross-cutting projects
  • Experience of leading the implementation and adoption of new solutions
  • An expert in at least one and a broad exposure to software languages including Python, Ruby, Javascript and more
  • Solid background deploying large applications over multiple regions/globally with high availability and consistency in mind
  • Experience designing complex data architectures and pipelines
  • Familiarity with designing containerized cloud environments, preferably in AWS using docker/Kubernetes
  • Experience as a thought leader/standard-bearer for engineers
  • Good Communication and organization skills
  • Experience with mentoring others
  • Ability to influence without positional authority
Where you will be:

At Onfido, we have a distributed workforce.
For this role, you can work in any EU country where we have a legal entity. We have a hybrid model, and you can choose to work fully-remote, or come to our offices! We let all of our employees choose what’s best for them.
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Where you will be:

At Onfido, we have a distributed workforce.

For this role, you can work in any EU country where we have a legal entity (France, Germany, Netherlands and Portugal). We have a hybrid model, and you can choose to work fully remote, or come to our offices! We let all of our employees choose what’s best for them.

Onfido Culture:

Onfidoer’s share a set of core values and want to hear from you if you believe in:
> Succeeding together; you work collaboratively and put the team first
> Taking pride; you care about quality, producing great work and customer / user outcomes
> Creating customer buzz; you demonstrate a strong user / customer focus
> Learning things & sharing them; you have a natural curiosity and default to sharing knowledge with others
> Finding a better way; you’re adept at finding solutions, experimentation and innovating to make things better

Benefits:

We're committed to making Onfido a fantastic place to work, so we go to great lengths to give you what you need to succeed. You’ll receive:

  • Share options in Onfido, through our equity schemes. Share options have a one year cliff and start vesting after probation over a four year period*
  • 25 days annual leave plus a day off for your Birthday.
  • Two paid volunteering days per year.*
  • Private Medical Insurance through Allianz*
  • Life Assurance (3x Annual Base Salary)*
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Free mental health coaching provided online.
  • Life enrichment allowance of up to €95 per month for services including gym, yoga, fitness classes, massages, childcare and therapy.
  • Dedicated learning opportunities, a team training budget for training and conferences
  • Our open and transparent culture is reflected in our “Better Together” motto and we bring this to life by meeting once a week for our global weekly roundup (OnFriday); holding quarterly team socials; and other company-wide social events.
  • Expense up to €600 to purchase workstation setup equipment.

Check out Life at Onfido via our
LinkedIn Careers Page

Onfido is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. We're always on the lookout for talented, passionate people and encourage applications from all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race or religion. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.