Footprint
Member of Technical Staff (Backend)
$180K–$260K
New York City +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 16, 2026
- Location
- New York City
San Francisco - Experience
- 4+ years designing, building, and operating backend systems under real load.
About the job
Build and operate Footprint’s backend platform and agent investigation services for identity verification and financial-crime compliance.
What you'll do
- Design Rust APIs and services for verification, vaulting, and Percy’s fraud investigations.
- Own product areas end to end, from data models and architecture through deployment.
- Set and defend service correctness, reliability, and security for bank and fintech customers.
What they ask for
- 4+ years designing, building, and operating backend systems under real load, including debugging failures.
- Have shipped and operated an API used by engineers on other teams or externally, and handled compatibility when it changed.
- Consider privacy, security, and trust in initial designs; reason clearly about tradeoffs and failure modes.
- Have owned a production service, including being on call for it.
Nice to have
- Production Rust experience, or deep systems experience and a strong desire to learn Rust.
- Experience in cryptography or systems security; external developer APIs or SDKs; or KYC and identity verification.
Pay
$180K – $260K (base salary)
Tools
Rust, Python, Postgres, Pulumi, AWS
AI focus
Build Percy’s agent investigation services, including agent memory, self-improving agents, and capabilities for investigating users for fraud.
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