Veryfi is a profitable, venture-backed software company in the heart of Silicon Valley, with a satellite office in Medellín, Colombia, Ciudad del Rio neighborhood.
Veryfi seeks a python backend engineer or data engineer with either 2+ years of software development experience,
or
a university degree in computer science and exceptional ability.
This engineer will work directly with senior machine learning engineers to build out to measure the accuracy of our machine learning models and create training data to create and improve our machine learning models.
ML experience is not required.
However, the role will use ML regularly.
Requirements
- Fluent in English.
- Intermediate Python.
You should be able to do a medium LeetCode problem in less than 30 minutes without AI.
- Formidable.
Does what they say they will do.
Consistently executes, rarely gets blocked.
- Ability to design and build performant systems, quickly.
- Willingness and ability to understand our end users needs.
When asked to build something that doesn't make sense, negotiate for simpler solutions.
- Organized.
Communicate opportunity costs and set expectations.
- Able to understand user needs, understand our team's existing infrastructure and processes, and design multiple solutions to a single problem.
Ability to clearly communicate tradeoffs of different design decisions.
- Ability to query different databases (SQL, OpenSearch, Mongo) quickly to solve problems.
- Ability to descope and simplify to meet deadlines.
Relentless drive for simplicity and speed.
- Ability to work in-office at our location in Ciudad del Rio, Medellín Colombia three days per week.
Ideal Candidates Have
- Ambition.
The candidate is serious about growing into a tech-lead, machine-learning engineer, or engineering manager in the next two years.
- Built medium sized features from scratch.
Researched different architecture choices, and communicated their recommendation to a tech lead or team.
- Ability to break down large projects into tasks.
- Built full stack Django applications or other Python web applications from scratch, and deployed in a cloud environment.
- Can clearly communicate their process when making technical decisions.
- Experience using Cursor, Claude Code, and other agents to quickly understand code and ship features.
Why Veryfi, Why this role
- Veryfi is profitable and quickly growing
- Veryfi is an awesome place to work.
We're a small team of top talent, still fewer than 100 people.
- You'll get significant ML and AI experience.
- We make engineering decisions transparently and quickly.
- We'll identify work that interests you, whether it's ML, Data Science, or people focused.
- Lunch provided on in-office days.
Pay is be competitive.
We're in the process of researching it.
That's the reason for the wide band.
We get hundreds of applicants; if you're interested, fill out this Google Form.