Backed by Index.
About the role
Percy runs financial-crime investigations inside our customers' operations, against their own procedures, on their real data. Getting each new customer from the first technical conversation to production - connected, configured, proven against their own analysts, trusted - is a real engineering job, and today the engineers who build Percy are the ones doing it. Footprint is signing customers fast enough that this needs to be someone's whole job. That's this role.
What they're looking for
- 2–4 years building software, ideally including time in a customer-facing, solutions, or implementation engineering role
- Genuinely strong in at least one of Python, TypeScript, Rust, Java, C++, or any other well established language, and able to pick up an unfamiliar stack to get a customer unblocked
- A rigorous engineering foundation you can demonstrate - you reason from first principles about systems you've never seen before
- You've debugged a problem across a boundary you didn't control: someone else's API, someone else's data, someone else's environment
- Familiarity with AI/LLM agents and how to configure, build, or prompt them effectively
- You communicate clearly and credibly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, turn fuzzy requirements into a concrete plan, and stay calm when a customer is depending on you
More about this role
Footprint is the agentic platform that learns your compliance program and runs it end to end.
Compliance teams at banks and fintechs are drowning in financial crimes investigations. Transaction volumes are surging, regulators keep raising the bar, and the work still runs on manual review queues stitched together from legacy vendors. Percy, our agentic system, 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%+.
The harder problem is underneath. Every investigation is grounded in the data sources compliance teams already trust, and every case commits to an organizational memory that compounds — so a pattern one analyst caught in March surfaces automatically in October, across KYC, EDD, sanctions, and monitoring. Whether the team is five analysts or 500, they share one brain. Every memory carries provenance. Agents propose; humans approve. That's four years of identity infrastructure sitting under the agent, and it's the part nobody can bolt on later.
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