--- title: 'Member of Technical Staff (Frontend) at Footprint' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-frontend-footprint-new-york-v48amzg2stxe' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Member of Technical Staff (Frontend) at Footprint - **Company:** Footprint - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-06-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/footprint/9ee2ccf5-5938-48a2-b4cb-8505cf1625cd ## 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 ## 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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