Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Veriff's Fraud Platform team as an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Fraud Engineering team, responsible for building infrastructure and intelligence to power real-time risk decisions and protect users at scale. You will grow and lead a high-performing team, partnering with product, data science, and security stakeholders to define strategy and priorities for fraud prevention. Accountabilities include delivering robust, scalable systems, ensuring operational excellence, and nurturing a team culture of collaboration. You will contribute to Veriff’s global fraud risk posture reinforcement and support career growth within the team. The ideal candidate possesses a strategic mindset, strong communication skills, and a passion for mentoring, along with experience in addressing fraud at scale and familiarity with ML-driven systems. This role offers the opportunity to make a real impact and advance your career while enjoying various benefits.

Requirements

• A strategic mindset and proven ability to align engineering efforts with measurable business impact
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, enabling alignment across technical and non-technical audiences
• A passion for mentoring and creating inclusive, high-performing team cultures
• You have prior experience addressing fraud at scale, whether through the development of fraud detection pipelines, the deployment of counter-abuse measures, or by leading teams responsible for fraud prevention systems
• Familiarity with ML-driven systems and the ability to partner fluently with data scientists and ML engineers
• Strong system design skills and the judgment to make pragmatic architectural decisions under real-world constraints
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, prioritise under risk, and frame technical investments in terms of business outcomes. You approach complexity with curiosity and tenacity, thrive on uncovering root causes, and seek practical, sustainable solutions to high-impact problems
• Proven ability to build, scale, retain, and drive strong engineering teams with a clear sense of purpose and identity
• A mindset geared towards innovation, with experience in implementing new technologies or methodologies to enhance fraud detection capabilities

Responsibilities

• Leading, growing, and developing a high-performing engineering team working on core fraud infrastructure and decisioning systems
• Partnering with product, data science, and security stakeholders to define strategy and priorities for fraud prevention
• Being accountable for delivering robust, scalable systems that balance precision, accuracy, and latency for real-time risk decisions, and supporting the implementation of effective countermeasures against emerging threats
• Contributing to Veriff’s global fraud risk posture reinforcement
• Ensuring operational excellence and reliability across the data flows and services your team maintains
• Nurturing a team culture of accountability, experimentation, and cross-functional collaboration
• Supporting career growth, feedback culture, and skill development in alignment with our internal engineering management principles

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with fraud prevention, security platforms, or decision engines in fintech, identity, or similar domains
• Proficiency in Python is a huge plus
• We expect our new leader to have evolved in cloud platforms ecosystems(AWS/GCP), and services specialised in data processing and ML
• Hands-on experience with observability, risk modelling, or feedback loop integration

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