Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

Footprint; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous compensation and equity

Free lunch and dinner

Monthly wellness stipend

Unlimited PTO

Fully covered health, dental, and visi

Opportunity to shape the future of web

Job summary

Footprint in San Francisco is seeking an experienced frontend engineer to own end-to-end features in React and TypeScript. You’ll work with a senior team, shaping a design system, SDKs for developers, and a fast, polished UI used by compliance analysts.

You’ll be responsible for performance budgets, releases, and observability, while collaborating across engineering and product. If you ship quality code, balance speed with polish, and enjoy building developer-facing tools, join us at Footprint.

Qualifications

• 4+ years shipping production frontend with React and TypeScript.
• Ship end to end, prioritize outcomes, and balance speed, polish, and scope.
• Genuine design sense; details show in your interfaces.
• Readable, well-structured code and ability to lead technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own user-facing features from spec to deploy across frontend.
• Develop external SDKs and docs for developers.
• Manage platform tooling: CI/CD, releases, monorepo.
• Own performance budgets and monitoring for dashboards.
• Develop and evolve the design system components.
• Talk to users to translate feedback into product changes.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend

End-to-end

Code quality

Release management

AI enablement

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