Powered by the most accurate device fingerprinting technology, Fingerprint enables engineers to prevent fraud, improve user experiences, and better understand their traffic. Backed by Craft Ventures.
About the role
You will be Fingerprint's first dedicated Architect. You will lead cross-cutting architecture — how our systems fit together and where they need to go — working alongside the Staff and Lead engineers who already shape them, without direct reports. The mandate has three parts. First, go deep : build the end-to-end picture nobody currently has time to hold, identify where the platform will strain as we scale, and set the direction to address it.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years operating as an Architect for a 100+ Engineering org — you have owned architecture for a platform, not just a service
- Track record of leading through influence: you have led senior engineers you didn't manage, run design review or architecture forums that people actually used, and driven adoption of standards across an org
- Experience designing public APIs and SDKs at scale, including versioning, backward compatibility, and multi-surface consistency
- Demonstrated ability to anticipate systemic risk and act on it — you can point to failures you prevented, not just ones you fixed
- Exceptional written communication. You make complex decisions legible to engineers and executives alike, and you default to async, documented decision-making
- Pragmatism over purity. You balance long-term architecture with delivery pressure and know when "good enough" is the right call
More about this role
Fingerprint empowers enterprises to detect and stop online fraud with the world’s most accurate device intelligence. We lead our industry with bleeding-edge identification capabilities and work on turning new ideas and discoveries in the fraud detection space into reality. Our customers range from innovative startups to leading enterprise companies, including Plaid, Dropbox, and Booking.com.
Fingerprint is a globally dispersed, 100% remote company. We were named on on the 2026 Forbes Best Startup Employers list and ranked #803 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.
We have raised $77M and are backed by Craft Ventures ( Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb ), Nexus Venture Partners ( Postman , Apollo.io, MinIO , Druva) and Uncorrelated Ventures ( Redis, Rollbar, Gradle ).
You will be Fingerprint's first dedicated Architect. You will lead cross-cutting architecture — how our systems fit together and where they need to go — working alongside the Staff and Lead engineers who already shape them, without direct reports. The mandate has three parts. First, go deep : build the end-to-end picture nobody currently has time to hold, identify where the platform will...
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