--- title: 'Member of Technical Staff (Backend) at Footprint' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-backend-footprint-new-york-yhqhnzv3tz9h' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Member of Technical Staff (Backend) at Footprint - **Company:** Footprint - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-06-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/footprint/ff0a1611-7739-41b3-a817-92eaf095fcbd ## 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, our backend systems helped answer one question: should this company onboard this user? The clear cases were automated; the ambiguous ones went to a human who worked each case by hand. That's where the fraud worth catching tends to be. Footprint's risk agent, Percy, goes after that queue: an agent that can do more in review than a person can, and faster. The identity verification platform underneath it was built for bounded request/response work, and now agent-shaped workloads ask different questions of it. There's little precedent to copy. You'd span both worlds: the platform financial services run on today, and the agentic products we're building on top of it. You'll report directly to the Head of Engineering - Elliott Forde. ## What You'll Own - API and service design. The Rust APIs and services powering verification, vaulting, and the checks Percy runs to investigate users for fraud. These are the surfaces our customers' products call directly, which makes the design decisions hard to take back - 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 Stack Rust · Python · Postgres · Pulumi · AWS Deep experience with most of this, and the judgment to pick up the rest, is what matters. Must-Have - 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 - Privacy, security, and trust show up in your first design sketch - You reason clearly about tradeoffs and chase failure modes other people call unlikely - You've owned a service in production, including being the person paged for it - You've conceded your own design to a better one and shipped it Nice-to-Have - Production Rust, or deep systems experience and a real desire to learn it. The backend is Rust, so this is what decides how quickly you're productive in it - Background in real-world cryptography or systems security. We vault identity data on behalf of banks and fintechs, so this counts for a lot here - Experience designing APIs or SDKs used by external developers - ours are the product customers integrate, and those decisions are hard to take back once someone has shipped against them - Familiarity with KYC and identity verification. It shortens the ramp on why the checks are shaped the way they are Success Looks Like 90 Days: A product area is yours and you've shipped to the APIs customers integrate: agent memory, self-improving agents, or new verification capabilities. The team routes that area's architectural questions to you. 1 Year: You've architected and delivered a major platform capability, you actively shape what we decide to build and how we build it, and the team's engineering standards are higher because you're on it. ## 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 ## About Footprint ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Footprint is an AI-native platform for risk operations that helps companies verify identities, block fraud, ensure compliance, and drive revenue through a unified identity and privacy platform. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: New York, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Eli Wachs (CEO), Alex Grinman (CTO) ## Core Business - Primary industry: Identity Infrastructure, Fraud Detection, KYC/KYB Compliance, Cybersecurity - Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (banking, payments, gaming, real estate, supply chain) - Mission or purpose statement: "Bringing interoperability and real security to the internet, by giving companies the tools to verify, authenticate, and secure identity with no friction, low cost, and unparalleled accuracy, and consumers the ability to live in a secure world that trusts and rewards them for being digital citizens." ## Products & Services - **AI-Native Risk Platform**: A generative onboarding UI that converts more users, assesses risk in milliseconds, and investigates financial crime with AI agents—automatically. Includes KYC, KYB (Know Your Business), and more, eliminating manual review and the need for BPOs. - **One-Click KYC / Identity Vault**: A unified identity and privacy platform enabling one-click KYC powered by a strong cryptographic data vault, giving consumers control over their data. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $20.0M - **Notable Investors/Partners**: QED Investors (led Series A), Index Ventures, and 15+ other investors across seed and Series A rounds. Team members hail from Stripe, Robinhood, Brex, and Fast. - **Growth Signals**: 18 employees (+37.5% YoY growth), annual revenue of $510K (early stage), monthly web traffic of 188K visits (+173.5% YoY), top customers across banking, payments, gaming, real estate, and supply chain. Raised a $13M Series A in May 2024. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-Native Approach**: Uses generative AI for onboarding and AI agents for fraud investigation, differentiating from legacy KYC/fraud tools. - **Privacy-First Architecture**: Cryptographic data vault puts users in control of their data, building trust and regulatory compliance. - **Strong Team DNA**: Early employees from Stripe, Robinhood, Brex, and Fast bring deep fintech and identity experience. - **Product Breadth**: Covers KYC, KYB, fraud detection, and identity verification in a single platform, reducing vendor complexity. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling the AI-native risk platform to more enterprise customers across banking, payments, gaming, and real estate. - Deepening the identity layer of the internet with a focus on interoperability and real security. - Continuing to invest in AI agents to automate manual review and financial crime investigation. - Growing the team globally with a remote-first culture. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values include "Make mistakes and learn," "Lead with empathy," "No shortcuts to progress," and "Reputation is built over years, but destroyed in a day." The team is passionate, diverse, and hails from multiple countries. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Fully remote across the globe, with quarterly offsites that are described as "tasteful yet enjoyable." - **Notable Perks**: Generous benefits, a strong emphasis on work-life balance ("Work hard, be happy"), and a culture that celebrates mistakes as learning opportunities. Team members get "a ton of responsibility" and are empowered to have a big impact. - **Engineering Culture**: Small, high-agency engineering team (5 people) working on hard problems in cryptography, AI, and identity. Tech stack includes React, Figma, C, and more. ## Sources 1. [onefootprint.com](https://onefootprint.com/) 2. [onefootprint.com/company](https://onefootprint.com/company) 3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/footprint](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/footprint) 4. [linkedin.com/company/onefootprint](https://www.linkedin.com/company/onefootprint) 5. 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