Staff Backend Engineer, Rust & FinTech Identity Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Generous compensation and equity

Free lunch and dinner (after 7pm)

Monthly wellness stipend

Unlimited PTO

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Footprint is the agentic platform that learns your compliance program and runs it end to end. You’ll span both the platform used by financial services today and the agentic products built on top, owning backend systems with a focus on verification and fraud investigations.

You’ll design APIs, define data models, and ship production-grade services with a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and auditability.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, building, and operating backend systems under real load - including debugging them when they broke.
• You've shipped and operated an API that engineers on other teams or outside your company build against, and handled the compatibility problem when it had to change.
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Responsibilities

• API and service design. The Rust APIs and services powering verification, vaulting, and the checks Percy runs to investigate users for fraud.
• Product areas, end to end. A whole area becomes yours: data model, architectural calls, deploy. You take features from ideation through production with design and frontend, and you're in the planning conversations that decide which ones happen
• Systems that hold up to scrutiny. Our customers are banks and fintechs, and their auditors and security teams read what we build. Correctness, reliability, and the security posture of your services are yours to set and defend
• The agent-shaped work. Percy's investigation services are the newest and least settled part of the backend. What excellence looks like here is still being decided, and you'd be one of the people deciding it

Skills

API design

Backend systems

Security by design

Production ownership

Systems thinking

Tools

Rust

Python

Postgres

Pulumi

AWS

Job description

Footprint is the agentic platform that learns your compliance program and runs it end to end. You’ll span both the platform used by financial services today and the agentic products built on top, owning backend systems with a focus on verification and fraud investigations.

You’ll design APIs, define data models, and ship production-grade services with a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and auditability.