Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Fingerprint as a Staff Engineer and lead the technical vision and execution of smart signals, focusing on improving bot and AI agent detection. Lead and mentor a team of engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and architect scalable web applications using Golang. Drive the adoption of best practices and stay updated on the latest technologies in bot detection. Act as a technical liaison between engineering, product, and research teams. This role requires a systems thinker capable of handling high-stakes ambiguity and deep technical complexity. Fingerprint offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on backend development
• Expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, and React, with a deep understanding of core principles and best practices
• Expertise with RESTful APIs and asynchronous programming
• Experience working with real-time data processing and APIs
• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with databases like DynamoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch
• Proficient in English for clear communication in a global, remote team
• Experience working with real-time data processing and APIs
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a strong attention to detail
• Ability to lead and inspire a team, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance, coaching, and support to foster their professional growth
• Drive critical cross-team initiatives by partnering with data science, product and other engineering teams to align technical solutions with business priorities and long-term strategy
• Architect, design, develop and maintain robust and scalable web applications using Golang
• Drive adoption of best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies across the team and organization
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends (specifically in the bot detection space), and propose innovative solutions to improve our existing systems
• Act as a technical liaison between engineering, product management, research team and other stakeholders to drive the bot and AI agent detection capabilities of our product

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with bot and AI agent detections and related protocols
• Practical experience with analytical storage systems like ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks
• Experience with data transformation frameworks like dbt or other data pipeline tools
• Experience with the Python data analytics stack (NumPy, Pandas, Jupyter, etc.)

Benefits

200 - 250k