Staff Engineer - Growth - Verifications
Core
Own technical direction for business verification (KYC/KYB) services, ensuring fast, safe, and defensible onboarding for institutional clients while integrating third-party providers.
Role type
Staff Engineer (Technical Leadership)
Builds
Verification services and contracts for the Pro side of a crypto/fintech platform
Domain
Fintech / Cryptocurrency / Compliance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Rust, TypeScript, React, distributed systems, service contracts, secure design, third-party API integration, system reliability patterns (timeouts, retries, idempotency, circuit breakers), architecture decision making, mentoring
Preferred skills
KYC/KYB or fraud domain experience, AI integration, crypto/fintech regulatory experience
Technologies
gRPC, Temporal, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, GitLab CI
Responsibilities
Set the shape of verification services and their contracts across the KYC/KYB flow; Decide how to abstract KYC and KYB vendors to prevent provider outages; Design fail-closed behavior and audit trails for regulatory scrutiny; Identify and eliminate recurring classes of failure; Write and drive architecture decisions (ADRs) with a focus on security and compliance; Mentor senior engineers through design reviews and code feedback
Seniority
Staff, hands-on technical leadership