diff --git a/src/backend/pyproject.toml b/src/backend/pyproject.toml
index 6ced849a..adad041d 100644
--- a/src/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/src/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "nested-multipart-parser==1.5.0",
     "psycopg[binary]==3.1.18",
     "PyJWT==2.8.0",
+    "joserfc==0.9.0",
     "requests==2.31.0",
     "sentry-sdk==1.45.0",
     "url-normalize==1.4.3",