Software Engineer, Payments Identity Verification
Sydney NSW, AustraliaFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Software Engineer role at Google focused on Identity Verification within the Payments domain, developing next-generation infrastructure to support verification journeys at scale.
Responsibilities
- Navigate technical ambiguity to architect robust abstractions, translating messy, region-specific identity requirements into unified back-end services.
- Lead the design and execution of new system capabilities, evolving our platform to support increasingly complex verification journeys.
- Design resilient integrations with an ecosystem of external identity providers, ensuring reliability and secure, silent data verification.
- Act as a strategic technical partner to downstream engineering teams (e.g., Play, Cloud, and Google Pay), guiding the integration of our infrastructure into their specific user journeys from onboarding to business generation.
- Drive system-wide improvements across the various components that make-up the Identity Verification (IDV) platform, taking ownership of critical engineering metrics like pass rates and verification duration.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
Skills
Required:Programming languages
Nice to have:Cross-functional collaborationAccessibilityData structures and algorithms
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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