Senior Backend Engineer (Rust) - Identity Platform

One Footprint Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity + comp

Free meals

Wellness stipend

Unlimited PTO

Health/Dental/Vision insurance

Identity & security impact

Job summary

One Footprint Inc. is building Percy, an AI-powered platform for financial crime investigations. We are seeking a backend engineer who will own APIs and services powering the Footprint platform, with focus on security, scalability, and reliable delivery.

You will ship end-to-end features, shape architectural direction from day one, and work closely with design and frontend teams to deliver robust infrastructure for millions of users.

Qualifications

• Production backend experience at scale and ownership of systems.
• Security, privacy, and trust drive your architecture and decisions.
• You design for scalability and security from day one.
• You think through edge cases, failure modes and the not-happy path.
• You move quickly yet diligently and ship reliably.
• Low ego, high ownership in a high-trust team.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship high-performance APIs and services powering Percy.
• Own backend end-to-end from data model to deployment.
• Own significant product areas and architectural decisions.
• Contribute to overall product direction and planning.
• Write production Rust for secure, scalable systems.

Skills

Production backend experience

Security-first mindset

Systems thinking

Edge-case attention

Bias to action

Low ego, ownership

Tools

Rust

Python

PostgreSQL

Pulumi

AWS

Job description

One Footprint Inc. is building Percy, an AI-powered platform for financial crime investigations. We are seeking a backend engineer who will own APIs and services powering the Footprint platform, with focus on security, scalability, and reliable delivery.

You will ship end-to-end features, shape architectural direction from day one, and work closely with design and frontend teams to deliver robust infrastructure for millions of users.