Engineering Manager – Digital Identities
Veriff
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇪🇪 Estonia
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead, grow, and develop a high-performing engineering team responsible for core digital identity and registry infrastructure, including digital document ingestion, credential exchange, consent and security, and biometric validation where required.
- Define the team’s structure and evolution as it scales, introducing clear processes and scalable execution practices.
- Own the end-to-end delivery of digital ID and registry products, from integrations and orchestration into our identity platform to user experience, ensuring performance, scalability, and regulatory compliance from idea to measurable outcomes.
- Partner with product leadership on strategy for coverage, adoption, prioritization, and pricing of digital ID and registry methods, shaping roadmap, technical architecture, and go-to-market readiness.
- Drive initiatives that bring critical integrations, orchestration, and verification logic in-house, reducing third-party dependencies and increasing control over performance and innovation.
- Ensure operational excellence, observability, and robustness across all systems under your team’s ownership.
- Build a team culture centered on trust, technical curiosity, and high-quality execution.
- Mentor engineers, providing feedback and support for long-term growth.
Requirements
- You bring technical leadership in platform engineering, integrations, or systems architecture, and you’re passionate about solving real-world identity and trust challenges.
- You’ve built or led teams owning end-to-end products that combine backend systems and third-party registry APIs, and customer-facing integrations.
- You’re comfortable in high-growth environments and have designed systems that scale with both product adoption and team size.
- You balance technical depth with people leadership, especially as the team grows and the role becomes more strategic.
- You navigate ambiguity well and add structure where none exists, while keeping the team focused and motivated.
- You’re excited to work in a regulated domain, partnering with legal and compliance to create safe, privacy-preserving experiences.
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
platform engineeringsystems architectureintegrationsbackend systemsAPI developmentdigital document ingestioncredential exchangebiometric validationperformance optimizationregulatory compliance
Soft skills
technical leadershipteam buildingmentoringproblem-solvingnavigating ambiguitystrategic thinkingcommunicationtrust buildingmotivationcuriosity