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

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

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

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