Senior Software Engineer, Verification

<p><span>&lt;gh-intro&gt;</span><span><br/></span><span>&lt;text&gt;</span></p> <p>We are looking for an experienced <strong>Senior Backend Software Engineer </strong>to join the <strong>Verification Platform team</strong> and work on our in-house identity verification platform. This involves exciting product challenges: improving the quality of our identity verification process, leveraging modern machine learning systems to automate it, and fighting identity fraud, all with an end goal of providing a smooth and safe experience to our 200M+ global customers!</p> <p><span>&lt;/text&gt;</span><span><br/></span><span>&lt;/gh-intro&gt;</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span>&lt;gh-about-us&gt;</span><span><br/></span><span>&lt;title&gt;</span><strong>About us</strong><span>&lt;/title&gt;</span></p> <p><span>&lt;text&gt;</span></p> <p>With over 200 million customers in 50+ countries, Bolt is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe and Africa. And it's all thanks to our people.</p> <p>We believe in creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability.</p> <p>Our ultimate goal is to make cities for people, not cars, and we need your help to achieve this mission!</p> <p><span>&lt;/text&gt;</span></p> <p><span>&lt;/gh-about-us&gt;</span><span><br/></span><span><br/></span><span>&lt;gh-role-detail&gt;</span></p> <p><span>&lt;title&gt;</span><strong>About the role</strong><span>&lt;/title&gt;</span></p> <p><span>&lt;text&gt;</span></p> <p>As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and deploying backend solutions that improve our identity verification plaform. That will mostly happen via coding in Node.js and TypeScript (PS: no previous experience with Node.js is needed).<br/>You will be closely collaborating with key internal stakeholders to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs. Engineers at Bolt have a heavy inclination towards product thinking, so you will get a chance to shape up and drive exciting product initiatives yourself, in partnership with your peer Product Manager!</p> <p><span>&lt;/text&gt;</span><span><br/></span><span>&lt;/gh-role-detail&gt;</span><span><br/><br/></span></p> <p>&lt;gh-responsibilities&gt;</p> <p>&lt;title&gt;<strong>Main tasks and responsibilities:</strong>&lt;/title&gt;</p> <p>&lt;bulletpoints&gt;</p> <ul> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;Architecting, designing, developing, testing (A/B experimentation) and deploying solutions that improve our identity verification platform&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;Building a deep understanding of our products and of the way they impact the business metrics and end users; contributing ideas and constructive feedback to our product development roadmap&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;Collaborating with key internal stakeholders to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs and positively impact the business&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;Leading features/initiatives from idea to the point where they bring positive, validated impact to the end users&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;Working closely with Product to slice and dice scope and deliver piece by piece&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;Sharing your knowledge by giving tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices in and outside of the team&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> </ul> <p><span>&lt;/bulletpoints&gt;</span><span><br/></span><span>&lt;/gh-responsibilities&gt;</span></p> <p><span> </span></p> <p><span>&lt;gh-requirements&gt;</span></p> <p><span>&lt;title&gt;</span><strong>About you:</strong><span>&lt;/title&gt;</span></p> <p><span>&lt;bulletpoints&gt;</span></p> <ul> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;You have experience of thriving in an environment that has a fast customer-feedback cycle and having empathy for the end-user&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;You are great at making data-driven and metric-driven decisions; experience in product companies with a bias for properly experimenting their product hypotheses is a plus&lt;point&gt;</span></li> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;You have a drive for leading initiatives and features till the end, even if the last mile is the hardest, and for monitoring and ensuring their success even after delivery&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;You feel at home with microservice architecture and you are experienced in API design&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;You have strong principles towards writing clean, simple, secure, and maintainable code&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> <li><span>&lt;point&gt;You possess solid understanding of algorithms and data structures&lt;/point&gt;</span></li> </ul> <p><span>&lt;/bulletpoints&gt;</span><span><br/></span><span>&lt;text&gt;</span></p> <p><spa