Senior Backend Engineer at Youverify

Youverify is a leading provider of digital identity verification, AML, and fraud solutions, dedicated to helping businesses automate and streamline their customer onboarding processes while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. We leverage cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning to offer accurate and efficient verification solutions that enhance customer trust and operational efficiency. We aim to reduce fraud and support businesses across various industries, including banking, fintech, telecommunications, and e-commerce.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new features and enhancements using NodeJS
• Fix bugs assigned during the sprint planning process
• Design, innovate, and solve complex problems inherent in operating a large-scaleclassifieds platform
• Play a key role in reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process
• Interact with product owners, partners, and business stakeholders to understand and develop requirements
• Debugging and Improvement of Existing Systems
• Expand our micro-services architecture
• Management of all 3rd party tool relationships and integrations from a technical aspect. i.e., SMS providers, Email, APIs, Finance tools, Marketing tools, Business tools, AWS, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• 5+ years’ experience working with NodeJS
• Comfortable working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management
• Intermediate understanding of unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries — Mocha, Jest, etc
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understanding its importance
• Experience having worked with at least one Web Framework for your language of choice
• Comfort and familiarity with code editor and formatting tools
• Familiarity with at least one web server technology — (ex, Apache, Nginx)
• Working knowledge of at least one CI/CD tool — Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI, GitHub Action
• Working knowledge of GRPC and protocol buffers
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Familiarity with containerization infrastructure (Docker), Caching (Redis), API gateway (KrakenD), orchestration (Kubernetes), distributed tracing (Jaeger), Service mesh (LinkerD), and observability
• Knowledge of microservices (or SOA), Docker, and/or distributed systems.
• Good working knowledge ofNoSQL systems (MongoDB, Elastic, Cassandra),
• Relational Database Systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle), Messaging Systems (RabbitMQ), Kafka
• Experience with managing and deploying applications on AWS/Digital Ocean/GCP.

Application Closing Date
14th February, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: hr@youverify.co using the Job title as the subject of the email.

Note: Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

Application Process:

• Initial Screening
• Initial Call
• Technical Assessment
• Technical Interview
• The final interview includes a behavioural and a leadership interview
• Offer
• Onboarding
• Reference check.