# Software Architect at Fingerprint

- Company: Fingerprint
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://fingerprint.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $177K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://fingerprint.com/careers/jobs/apply/?gh_jid=6188157004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fingerprint-software-architect/

## 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

Tags: Engineering