Job Description
At Veriff, we are exploring the next frontier of identity verification: agentic AI systems that can reason, act, and operate safely in high-trust environments.
We are forming a small, high-leverage team to explore and productionize agentic capabilities across identity, KYA, risk assessment, and automation workflows.
We are looking for a Founding Engineer to help build this from the ground up.
You’ll help us protect honest people online by:
- Design and build agentic systems that can:
- Use tools;
- Reason across multi-step workflows;
- 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.
Requirements
- 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
Company offers
- 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
