footprint

Member of Technical Staff (Backend)

New York City · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago

PythonRustPostgreSQLAWSCloud Platforms

About the role

This is a high-ownership seat on a small, senior team.
You'll report directly to the Head of Engineering.
Product direction: Be a strong contributor to overall product direction and team planning.

Work closely with design and frontend engineers to take features from ideation through production, owning the backend from data model to deployment.
Own significant features and entire product areas completely.
You'll be trusted to make the architectural calls, not just implement them.
Your judgment shapes what we build, not only how we build it.
You design for scalability and security from day one, not as an afterthought, and you reason clearly about tradeoffs.
You move quickly yet diligently, aren't afraid to make and own mistakes, and get things shipped.
You've architected and delivered major platform capabilities, become a go-to person for system design decisions, and elevated the team's engineering standards.
From day one, you'll have direct ownership over strategic initiatives that drive the business forward.
You'll design and ship the infrastructure behind identity verification and Percy for millions of users, own large product areas end-to-end, and help set the technical direction of the platform.
You'll have real architectural authority from day one, and your judgment will shape what we build, not just how.

Familiarity with the KYC and identity verification space.
Background with real-world cryptography or systems security.
Production experience with Rust, or strong systems experience and a real desire to learn it.
Experience with cloud infrastructure at scale: AWS and Pulumi.
Experience designing APIs or SDKs used by external developers.
Rust, Python, Postgres, Pulumi, AWS
90 Days: You've shipped meaningful API or infrastructure improvements, demonstrated ownership of a product area, and built trust with the team through reliable delivery.
Massive impact, fast: You'll work on projects that shape company direction, not analysis that gets shelved.

Compliance teams at banks and fintechs are drowning in financial crimes investigations.
Percy learns each team's procedures and makes the same calls their analysts would:
clearing false positives, escalating real risk, writing the case narrative, and documenting every decision for audit.
It cuts review workloads by 70%+ and routinely catches fraud that human reviewers miss.

You'll work on projects that shape company direction, not analysis that gets shelved.
We're a fast-moving, no-BS team that likes to win (and have fun doing it).
Design and build high-performance, well-structured APIs and services that power the Footprint platform and the products our customers depend on.
We're looking for a backend engineer who cares deeply about building secure, scalable systems to own the APIs and services that power it.
API and service design: Design and build high-performance, well-structured APIs and services that power the Footprint platform and the products our customers depend on.

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