Senior Backend Engineer, Fingerprint
Data Intensive Applications
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Device intelligence platform for fraud detection
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Device intelligence platform for fraud detection
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower developers to build safe and seamless online services.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in CS or related field
- 3+ years of demonstrated experience developing high-scale web backend systems
- Hands-on experience in building distributed systems – not solely responsible for architecture, but also for writing code
- Excellent English - both written and verbal communication
Desirable
- Production experience with Golang, AWS stack, and key-value storages like DynamoDB and Redis
- Experience using Data Analytics stack, column-based storages like Clickhouse, Data Visualisation like Apache Superset,
- Experience with Data-intensive applications like anti-fraud systems, recommender systems, computational advertising, marketing analytics, informational retrieval, and fuzzy search
What the job involves
- Fingerprint is seeking a senior backend engineer to strengthen the team, developing the device identification API serving around 1 billion requests per month with the best accuracy on the market
- We are interested in a fresh perspective on the technological problems in the field where we have to find patterns in high amounts of noisy data and help empower other developers to build safe and seamless online services via fast, reliable, scalable, distributed API
- Taking responsibility for end-to-end development of Identification API together with a team of several seasoned engineers, which includes architectural design, implementation, and long-term support of both product features and incremental improvements of accuracy and performance of algorithms underneath
- Communicating time estimates, issues, and technological challenges in a collaborative setting
- Solve problems of relatively complex scope through general usage of standard programming concepts and principles, and application of own judgment
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
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, the company has also continued to improve upon its offering - for instance, in Q1 2023 it reported a decreased in iOS false positive and false negative rates by 85%.
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
Founders
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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