Senior Golang Backend Engineer, Fingerprint
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Device intelligence platform for fraud detection
Open for applications
Device intelligence platform for fraud detection
101-200 employees
Open for applications
We do not sponsor visas
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower developers to build safe and seamless online services.
Role
Who you are
- Backend development: Golang, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
- Data processing/analytics: ClickHouse, dbt
- Infrastructure: AWS
- 5+ years of experience in backend development with a focus on building scalable, high-performance systems
- Backend Engineering Expertise:
- Strong experience in designing, developing, and maintaining distributed backend systems
- Proficiency in Golang
- Experience with building and optimizing APIs, real-time data processing systems, and microservices architectures
- Strong knowledge of databases, preferably DynamoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
- Proficiency with general software engineering tools: Git, CI/CD pipelines, shell scripting, IDEs
- Proficient in English for clear communication in a global, remote team
Desirable
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
- Practical experience with analytical storage systems like ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Redshift
- Familiarity with data transformation frameworks such as dbt
- Understanding of modern containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our innovative team
- In this role, you will focus on developing, maintaining, and scaling backend services that power our fraud detection solutions
- Your primary responsibility will be building highly performant backend systems and infrastructure that handle large-scale real-time data processing
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to architect end-to-end solutions that are reliable, scalable, and efficient
- You will own features from concept to deployment and ensure seamless integration with other components in our platform
- Design, develop, and optimize backend systems for real-time data processing and web services
- Build scalable APIs and backend infrastructure that support millions of requests per day
- Work with cross-functional teams to integrate backend components with other services, ensuring performance and scalability
- Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to improve fraud detection signals such as browser bot detection, VPN detection, and VM detection
- Conduct performance tuning, debugging, and testing of backend systems to ensure reliability and efficiency
- Drive best practices for backend development and architecture, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
Our take
Digital fingerprinting is an essential process in web browsers that tracks the digital address of a device to monitor web activity. This technique facilitates the identification of fraud and spam, as well as warning signs of account takeovers. However, the success of this requires users to accept cookies, a requirement that is easy to avoid.
Fingerprint provides a digital fingerprinting tool that generates a unique identifier of browser activity without requiring the user to accept cookies. The service uses the same WebGL and canvas fingerprinting utilized by existing competitors, but instead of focusing on devices, it identifies web activity. Suspicious activity will result in the identified user being logged in a database, allowing the service to be improved for others.
With this innovative approach, Fingerprint has been able to build up an impressive client roster of over 6000 companies, including 16% of the top 500 websites by traffic. As well as displaying sustained growth through funding rounds, the company has also continued to improve upon its offering - for instance, in Q1 2023 it reported a decrease in iOS false positive and false negative rates by 85%.
Kirsty
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2023
$33m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$32m
SERIES B
Total funding: $77m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited vacation, with a minimum vacation days target
- Remote-first: we work asynchronously and respect time-zone differences
- MacBook (you get to keep it after 3 years)
- A small team with a lean hierarchy where you can make a real impact in shaping the company
- Company meet-ups once a year (we went to Mexico City in 2023!)
- Smaller group meet-ups throughout the year
- $600 yearly budget that you can spend to learn new stuff
- Personal development: we give you the freedom to grow and experiment, work on open-source projects and try new things and ideas
Company values
- No BS - We are open and direct. We say what we mean and we mean what we say
- Fail. Learn. Grow - We aren't afraid to take big bets and make mistakes along the way in order to build a truly successful business. All ideas are welcome and evaluated equally based on merit, not position
- Don't take yourself too seriously - Whether playing online games or discussing company strategy, we try to have fun and bring our authentic selves to work
- Be level 5 helpful - We believe in going the extra mile in helping both our peers and our customers
Company HQ
Little Italy, Chicago, IL
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Leadership
Valentin Vasilyev
(CTO)Valentin worked as a Software Engineer for the first 9 years of their career, before Team Lead roles at Evrone and Machinio.com. They left this role in March 2019 to co-found Fingerprint the following month.
Dan Pinto
(CEO)Previously co-founded Machino, where they were CTO, and has experience in Software Engineering.
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