Footprint is expanding its engineering team and inviting talented software professionals to help build an advanced AI platform transforming compliance operations for banks and fintech companies. The company is hiring across multiple technical roles, offering full-time opportunities in New York City and San Francisco for engineers who want to work on cutting-edge artificial intelligence, infrastructure, security, frontend and backend systems.
Backed by leading venture capital firms QED Investors, Index Ventures, and Box Group, Footprint has rapidly emerged as a trusted technology partner for regulated financial institutions. Its AI-powered platform, Percy, is designed to automate complex compliance workflows while maintaining the transparency and auditability required by the financial sector.
For engineers passionate about machine learning, distributed systems, cybersecurity and financial technology, these roles offer an opportunity to contribute to a high-impact product used by banks and global fintech organizations.
About Footprint and the Percy Platform
Financial institutions face growing compliance demands, with analysts spending countless hours reviewing alerts, investigating transactions and documenting decisions across fragmented legacy systems. Footprint addresses this challenge through Percy, an intelligent compliance platform that learns an organization’s internal procedures and assists teams by automating repetitive investigative work.
Rather than replacing human decision-makers, Percy is designed around a human-in-the-loop approach. The platform reviews cases, clears low-risk false positives, escalates genuine compliance concerns, drafts detailed case narratives and records every decision with verifiable provenance for regulatory audits.
Each completed investigation strengthens an organizational knowledge base, allowing the system to recognize recurring patterns and surface insights across teams. This continuously expanding institutional memory helps improve consistency, reduce manual workloads and enhance decision quality over time.
Footprint’s technology is already trusted by FDIC- and OCC-regulated banks as well as prominent fintech companies including Bilt, Nuvei and MoonPay. The company also reports significant business growth, having increased revenue fivefold over the past year while maintaining a small, senior and product-focused engineering team.
Open Engineering Positions
Footprint is currently recruiting for five engineering positions:
- Forward Deployed Engineer — New York City (On-site)
- Member of Technical Staff (Backend) — New York City or San Francisco (Hybrid)
- Member of Technical Staff (Frontend) — New York City or San Francisco (Hybrid)
- Member of Technical Staff (Infrastructure) — New York City or San Francisco (Hybrid)
- Member of Technical Staff (Security) — New York City or San Francisco (Hybrid)
All positions are full-time and fall within the Engineering department.
Role Highlights
The engineering team is responsible for building reliable AI systems capable of supporting mission-critical compliance operations. Depending on the position, successful candidates may contribute to scalable backend services, intuitive user interfaces, cloud infrastructure, security architecture or customer-facing product deployments.
The Forward Deployed Engineer role focuses on implementing solutions directly with enterprise customers and ensuring successful platform adoption within highly regulated financial environments.
Backend engineers will design and optimize high-performance services that power Percy’s decision-making capabilities, while frontend engineers will create seamless interfaces that enable compliance analysts to efficiently review and manage investigations.
Infrastructure engineers will develop resilient cloud platforms, deployment pipelines and scalable system architecture, whereas security engineers will strengthen platform security, protect sensitive financial data and ensure compliance with industry security standards.
Why Engineers Should Consider Footprint
Footprint offers an environment built around speed, ownership and technical excellence. The company emphasizes working with experienced engineers who enjoy solving complex real-world problems rather than maintaining legacy software.
Key advantages include:
- Working on AI products with measurable real-world impact
- Building software for regulated banking and fintech environments
- Collaborating within a small, senior engineering team
- Exposure to modern infrastructure and scalable distributed systems
- Opportunities to shape product direction and technical architecture
- Hybrid work options for most engineering positions
Engineers joining the company will contribute to technology that improves financial safety, reduces operational inefficiencies and helps institutions meet increasingly demanding regulatory obligations.
Locations and Employment Type
Most engineering roles are available in either New York City or San Francisco under a hybrid work model, providing flexibility while maintaining close collaboration with product and engineering teams. The Forward Deployed Engineer position is based on-site in New York City due to its customer-facing nature.
All advertised opportunities are permanent full-time positions.
How to Apply
Qualified candidates interested in building the future of AI-driven compliance can apply directly through Footprint’s careers portal. Applicants should select the engineering position that best matches their expertise and submit their application for consideration.
As Footprint continues its rapid expansion, these opportunities provide experienced engineers with the chance to work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, financial regulation and enterprise software while contributing to one of the fastest-growing startups in the compliance technology sector.
