Member of Technical Staff (Frontend)

Footprint; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous compensation

Free meals

Wellness stipend

Unlimited PTO

Health insurance

Job summary

Footprint is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to lead user-facing features and tooling within our agile team. The role involves building and maintaining SDKs, performance monitoring, and evolving our design system.

You will be working closely with cross-functional teams under the guidance of the Head of Frontend Engineering. This is an excellent opportunity to own significant parts of our product and help shape its user experience.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in production frontend with React and TypeScript.
• Proficient in shipping and prioritizing outcomes effectively.
• Genuine design sense; care about details in UI.

Responsibilities

• Own user-facing features from spec to deployment.
• Develop and maintain SDKs for external developers.
• Manage performance budgets and monitoring functionalities.

Skills

Modern React

TypeScript

End-to-end shipping

User empathy

CI/CD

Performance monitoring

Design sense

Tools

Next.js

Tailwind

Vercel

Job description

Footprint is the agentic platform that learns your compliance program and runs it end to end.

Compliance teams at banks and fintechs are drowning in financial crimes investigations. Transaction volumes are surging, regulators keep raising the bar, and the work still runs on manual review queues stitched together from legacy vendors.

Percy, our agentic system, 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%+.

The harder problem is underneath. Every investigation is grounded in the data sources compliance teams already trust, and every case commits to an organizational memory that compounds — so a pattern one analyst caught in March surfaces automatically in October, across KYC, EDD, sanctions, and monitoring. Whether the team is five analysts or 500, they share one brain. Every memory carries provenance. Agents propose; humans approve. That's four years of identity infrastructure sitting under the agent, and it's the part nobody can bolt on later.

We're backed by QED, Index, and Box Group, and trusted by FDIC- and OCC-regulated banks plus fintechs like Bilt, Nuvei, and MoonPay. We 5x'd revenue last year. The team is small, senior, and ships fast.

The Role

For four years, Footprint's frontend was the front door for developers: onboarding flows customers embed, SDKs they integrate, a dashboard where they configure verification.

Percy changed who lives in the product. Over the past year, compliance teams and investigators moved from configuring Footprint to working inside it: reviewing what an agent found, editing the case narrative, signing off on decisions a regulator will read. The interface became the place our users do their job, and the bar for polish, speed, and clarity rose with it.

The team that owns all of this is a small team of senior engineers. The design system, the SDKs, the monorepo tooling, the release pipeline - all of it runs through them, and they set the standards the rest of engineering ships frontend against.

You’ll report directly to Head of Frontend Engineering - Rafael Motta.

What You’ll Own

• User-facing features, end to end. From spec to build to deploy to iterate, making the product and design tradeoffs along the way. The analyst-facing surfaces are the newest part of the product and the least settled
• The SDKs external developers use to embed Footprint. Clean APIs and good docs here shape our customers' integration experience directly, and those decisions are hard to take back once someone has shipped against them
• Platform and tooling. CI/CD, releases, and our pnpm monorepo. This work has been carried alongside product work, which is why it's on this list
• Performance and observability. You own the performance budgets and the monitoring for screens people sit in all day
• The design system. Own and evolve the component library, keeping the UI consistent, accessible, and fast to build on
• Customer empathy. Talk to the people who use what you build and turn what they struggle with into the product

Stack

React

• TypeScript
• Next.js
• Tailwind
• Vercel

Deep experience with most of this, and the judgment to pick up the rest, is what matters.

Must-Have

• 4+ years shipping production frontend in modern React and TypeScript - fluent in both, and comfortable moving fast in a large shared codebase
• You ship end to end, prioritize outcomes, and make smart tradeoffs between speed, polish, and scope
• Genuine design sense - you sweat the details, and the interfaces you ship show it
• You write readable, well-structured code and can lead technical decisions without over-engineering
• You've owned the lifecycle of what you ship: the release, the performance budget, and the alert that fires when it regresses
• You use AI to move faster and raise quality, and you read every line you ship

Nice-to-Have

• Experience building or maintaining SDKs or developer-facing APIs. A large share of this role's surface area is consumed by other engineers, and that's a different craft from shipping screens
• A strong eye for accessibility and web performance - our users are in these screens all day, so both compound
• Familiarity with KYC, identity, fraud, or compliance. The screens make more sense when you know what the analyst is deciding
• Comfort dipping into a Rust backend when a feature calls for it, so a feature never waits on someone else's queue

Success Looks Like

90 Days: You've built and owned a product area and its user experience: configuring agents, auditing the case reports they produce, or new verification capabilities. The team routes that product's architectural questions to you.

1 Year: You've driven a major product initiative end to end, the frontend platform is measurably faster to build on, and yours is the review other engineers want on hard frontend changes.

Why Join Footprint

• Massive impact, fast: You'll work on projects that shape company direction, not analysis that gets shelved.
• Own meaningful work: From day one, you'll have direct ownership over strategic initiatives that drive the business forward.
• Real growth opportunity: Promotion timelines depend on performance: the harder you work, the quicker you'll get promoted.
• Winning team and culture: We're a fast-moving, no-BS team that likes to win (and have fun doing it).

Benefits

• Generous compensation and equity packages
• Free lunch and dinner (after 7pm)
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Unlimited PTO
• Fully covered health, dental, and vision insurance
• The chance to help shape the future of internet identity and financial crime prevention

Compensation Range: $180K - $260K