# Member of Technical Staff (Backend) at Footprint

- Company: Footprint
- What the company does: Backed by Index.
- Company website: http://onefootprint.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/footprint/ff0a1611-7739-41b3-a817-92eaf095fcbd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/footprint-member-of-technical-staff-backend/

## About the role

For four years, our backend systems helped answer one question: should this company onboard this user? The clear cases were automated; the ambiguous ones went to a human who worked each case by hand. That's where the fraud worth catching tends to be.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering