Member of Technical Staff (Platform)

Footprint • New York, NY

9d

About The Position

We're building Percy, the AI agent that runs financial crime investigations end to end. Compliance teams at banks and fintechs are drowning in financial crime investigations. Transaction volumes are surging, regulators keep raising the bar, and the work still runs on manual review queues that take hours and are stitched together from legacy vendors. We believe AI will make most of these decisions within a few years, so we built Percy to handle them. Percy 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%+ and routinely catches fraud that human reviewers miss. Percy is only possible because of the identity platform we've spent four years building underneath it. Because we own the entire identity flow, Percy resolves ambiguity at the source, running its own checks across our verification tools before a case ever reaches a human. We're backed by QED, Index, Box Group, and Lerer Hippeau, and trusted by companies like Bilt, Nuvei, and MoonPay. We 5x'd revenue last year and plan to do it again in 2026. The team is small, senior, and ships fast.

Requirements

• Strong product mindset: Ships end-to-end, prioritizes outcomes, and makes smart tradeoffs.
• Security-first mindset: You care about privacy, security, and trust, and it shows in how you architect systems.
• Systems thinker: You design for scalability and security from day one, not as an afterthought.
• High bar for UI quality: Attention to detail, solid design sense, and strong collaboration with designers.
• Clean code: Writes maintainable, readable code and can lead technical decisions without over-engineering.
• Sweats the details: You think about edge cases, failure modes, and the not-happy path.
• Bias to action: You're not afraid to make mistakes, you move quickly yet diligently to get things done.
• Low ego, high ownership: You thrive in a high-trust environment where everyone pulls their weight.
• AI-native: Uses AI thoughtfully and effectively, leverages AI to move faster and improve quality, while validating results and keeping high engineering standards.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with the KYC & identity verification space.
• Background with real-world cryptography or systems security.
• Experience with (or interest in learning) Rust.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure at scale: AWS and Pulumi.

Responsibilities

• Own product features from spec → API → UI → deploy → iterate.
• Design and develop high-performance APIs and services that power the Footprint platform.
• Ship user-facing features with a high bar for UI quality, partnering closely with design.
• Contribute to our SDKs so external developers can integrate seamlessly.
• Improve CI/CD, releases, monorepo tooling (pnpm), performance, and observability across the stack.
• Build services that handle sensitive data securely and correctly (our backend is in Rust).
• Be a strong contributor to overall product direction and team planning.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed