R&D Team Lead - IDV

Job Description:

We offer the industry’s only platform that seamlessly integrates customer identity and anti-fraud solutions, including identity management, identity verification, and fraud prevention.

Our solutions serve industries with large consumer-facing businesses, such as banking, financial services, insurance, fintech, gaming, e-commerce/retail, telecommunications/media, and utilities.

About The Group

The Identity Verification group delivers cutting-edge, cross-platform SaaS solutions that help businesses seamlessly verify their users.

These solutions leverage advanced AI, machine learning, and computer vision models to enable secure and reliable document-based identity verification.

About the Role:

We are looking for a highly skilled R&D Team Lead to join our Identity Verification group.

This role is ideal for a strong technical leader who thrives in balancing hands-on development with architectural leadership and people management.

You’ll lead a talented team working across backend and frontend development, driving innovative solutions that shape the future of digital identity verification.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead a team of engineers, guiding them from both an architectural and technical perspective while fostering professional growth.
• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of end-to-end features across web, mobile, backend, and infrastructure layers, while guiding the team to uphold technical excellence and best practices.
• Oversee SaaS production systems in mission-critical environments.
• Collaborate closely with Product, UX, and Data Science teams to define technical solutions that deliver real user impact.
• Mentor team members, promote best practices, and cultivate a problem-solving, “can-do” culture.
  
  

• 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.
• 3+ years of proven experience as a people manager in a software engineering environment.
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience in Web application stacks - React / Node.js.
• Proven ability to lead large cross projects from ideation to production
• Strong understanding of software architecture and technical leadership.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Experience working with Data Science teams (especially in computer vision) is a significant plus.
• A mindset of responsibility and care for what you build—not just delivering code, but building systems that run well in the wild
• Cybersecurity background is an advantage.