Fingerprint
Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus)
Remote. The employer does not say where candidates may be based.
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Employer listed it 13 days ago · Added 2 days ago
First listed 13 days ago and still open.
Salary
$152,000 to $205,000
Location
Location not stated
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
Stated by the employer in the job description
Remote flexibility
Undisclosed
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- Countries you can work from: Not stated. The advert only gives "Remote", which names no country you must live in.
- Whether the work is remote: Confirmed by the employer: "Fingerprint is a globally dispersed, 100% remote company."
- Working hours: Stated: Async.
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About the 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 ).
Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus)
We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help build and operate the end-to-end fraud detection systems behind our Core APIs. Your primary responsibility will be building highly performant backend systems and keeping them reliable at scale. This is a hybrid backend/SRE role: you'll write the services and you'll own how they behave in production.
This role requires strong experience in backend software development, particularly API development and scaling existing systems in both Go and Node.js, paired with a genuine interest in reliability engineering. You'll design and implement scalable, high-performance backend systems, maintain their SLOs, and take ownership of features from concept through deployment and steady-state operation.
A key aspect of this role involves a deep understanding of scaling and operating distributed systems, allowing us to multiply our capacity safely and efficiently as our user base continues to grow rapidly.
What you'll do:
Design, develop, and optimize backend systems for real-time data processing and web services, with reliability, latency, and cost as first-class design constraints.
Define and own SLIs and SLOs for Core API services, and use error budgets to make concrete tradeoffs between shipping velocity and stability.
Build and maintain the observability that makes these systems debuggable: Meaningful metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerts that fire on user-visible symptoms rather than noise.
Participate in a shared on-call rotation, act as an effective responder during incidents, and lead blameless postmortems. The schedule will be communicated in advance, and we strive to balance coverage equitably while minimizing off-hours disruptions.
Drive down operational toil by automating recurring manual work, and close the loop on incident action items so the same failure doesn't happen twice.
Conduct capacity planning, load testing, and performance tuning to ensure the platform scales ahead of demand.
Conduct deep dives into problematic features, researching and analyzing their behavior to understand root causes and identify potential solutions. Develop hypotheses, run experiments, analyze results, and translate findings into actionable engineering improvements.
Work with cross-functional teams to integrate backend components with other services, ensuring performance and scalability.
Foster a data-driven, reliability-minded culture by sharing engineering best practices and collaborating on cross-functional projects.
Mentor other developers, helping all team members grow in our mission, values, and abilities.
What you bring:
5+ years of experience in backend development, including meaningful time operating what you built in production.
Formal SRE practice experience — error budget policies, capacity models, production readiness reviews, chaos or fault-injection testing.
Strong, demonstrated experience in GoLang and/or Node.js with a willingness to learn.
Strong experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems.
Experience with building and optimizing APIs, real-time data processing systems, and microservices architectures.
Requirements
- ·5+ years of experience in backend development, including meaningful time operating what you built in production.
- ·Formal SRE practice experience — error budget policies, capacity models, production readiness reviews, chaos or fault-injection testing.
- ·Strong, demonstrated experience in GoLang and/or Node.js with a willingness to learn.
- ·Strong experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems.
- ·Experience with building and optimizing APIs, real-time data processing systems, and microservices architectures.
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, undisclosed, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Fingerprint, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 3d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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