Senior Backend Engineer - Identity & Fraud Platform

Footprint; New York (NY); Híbrido; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity package

Free meals

Wellness stipend

Unlimited PTO

Health coverage

Impact on identity & compliance

Descripción de la vacante

Footprint is building an agentic platform for compliance that learns and runs end-to-end workflows for banks and fintechs. You will design Rust APIs and services powering verification and fraud investigations, while owning data models, deployments, and cross-team integration with frontend.

Join a small, senior team shipping fast and focusing on correctness, security, and auditable decisions in production. This role spans platform and agent-shaped workloads, shaping the future of identity

Formación

• 4+ years designing, building, and operating backend systems under real load
• Shipped and operated an API used by engineers outside your company
• Privacy, security, and trust must show up in your first design sketch
• Ownership of a production service including on-call responsibility
• Willingness to evolve your design when better options exist and ship it

Responsabilidades

• API and service design for verification, vaulting, and checks Percy runs to investigate users for fraud
• Own a product area end-to-end—from data model to deployment and integration with frontend
• Ensure system correctness, reliability, and security posture for customers and auditors
• Contribute to the agent-shaped backend workloads and define excellence in that area

Conocimientos

Backend system design

API design

Security by design

Trade-off analysis

On-call ownership

Herramientas

Rust

Python

Postgres

Pulumi

AWS

Descripción del empleo

Footprint is building an agentic platform for compliance that learns and runs end-to-end workflows for banks and fintechs. You will design Rust APIs and services powering verification and fraud investigations, while owning data models, deployments, and cross-team integration with frontend.

Join a small, senior team shipping fast and focusing on correctness, security, and auditable decisions in production. This role spans platform and agent-shaped workloads, shaping the future of identity