Staff Engineer - Growth - Verifications

Brazil, Remote. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will own the technical direction for verification services, including architecture and patterns. You will design fail-closed behavior and audit trails while mentoring senior engineers.

What you will do

Set the shape of the verification services and their contracts across the KYC/KYB flow.
Decide how to abstract KYC and KYB vendors.
Design fail-closed behavior and audit trails.
Identify and remove recurring classes of failure.
Write and drive architecture decisions (ADRs).
Hold the line on security and compliance at design time.
Mentor and raise the bar for senior engineers through design reviews, code, and direct feedback.

Required qualifications

Around eight years building and running production systems.
Track record of owning a domain's technical direction.
Deep, fluent expertise in Rust.
Versatility to work across TypeScript and React.
Experience setting architecture other people build on.
Experience making teams faster through patterns, tooling, or mentoring.
Experience building where being wrong had real consequences like compliance, payments, or security.
Strong on distributed systems, service contracts, and secure design.
Experience integrating third-party APIs with timeouts, retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, and backup paths.
Comfortable with, or able to quickly ramp on, gRPC, Temporal, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, and GitLab CI.

Nice to have

Direct experience with KYC, KYB, or fraud work, including integrating providers like Trulioo, Persona, or ComplyAdvantage.
Comfort building with AI in the loop.
Time spent in crypto, fintech, or another space regulators pay close attention to.

Before you apply

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About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. It has spent 15 years building financial infrastructure platforms to advance an open, global financial system.