Software Architect

🕒 September 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $177k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Fingerprint

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🔒 Cybersecurity

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

💰 $32M Series B on 2021-11

Cybersecurity • API • SaaS

Fingerprint is a technology company focused on bot detection and identification solutions. The platform helps businesses ensure a secure online environment by accurately identifying users and distinguishing between real users and automated bots. They provide developer guides and workspace settings for easy integration into various applications, enhancing security and user experience.

📋 Description

• Lead Fingerprint’s cross-cutting architecture as the company’s first dedicated Architect • Build and maintain the end-to-end architecture picture, including data flows, service boundaries, and ownership seams • Identify systemic scaling, reliability, and cost risks across ingestion, identification, signals, and delivery pipelines • Drive architectural changes before risks become incidents • Set direction for API design and service patterns across REST, SDK, and MCP surfaces • Shape foundational initiatives such as cell architecture, multi-region readiness, rate limiting, and feature flag infrastructure • Serve as technical lead across the engineering organization without direct reports • Set agendas, drive decisions to closure, maintain decision records, and ensure adoption across teams • Partner with Engineering leadership and Staff/Lead engineers to prioritize cross-cutting work • Mentor Staff-level engineers on system design, technical writing, and influence • Strengthen RFCs and cross-team design reviews • Establish standards for observability, quality, security-by-design, and API evolution/versioning • Review and sign off on critical designs • Translate business trajectory into multi-quarter technical strategy and sequence the work • Advise Engineering leadership and executives on build/buy decisions, platform investment, and technical risk • Lead AI adoption in engineering practices and shape systems for AI-agent effectiveness • Prototype, write reference implementations and documentation, and investigate production issues as needed • Report directly to the VP of Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience • 3+ years operating as an Architect for a 100+ Engineering organization • Experience owning architecture for a platform, not just a service • Track record of leading through influence and driving adoption of standards across an organization • Deep expertise in distributed systems and high-throughput, low-latency backend architecture • Experience with Go or a similar systems language • Experience with Kubernetes and AWS • Experience with event-driven and data-intensive systems • Experience designing public APIs and SDKs at scale, including versioning, backward compatibility, and multi-surface consistency • Demonstrated ability to anticipate and mitigate systemic risk • Exceptional written communication and documented decision-making • Regular use of AI coding and reasoning tools • Ability to architect codebases, documentation, service boundaries, and APIs for safe human and AI-agent use • Pragmatic approach to balancing architecture with delivery pressure • Experience stepping into a newly dedicated role and earning stakeholder trust • Must be authorized to work from the candidate's home location • Nice to have: fraud detection, identity, device intelligence, adversarial domains, multi-region/cell-based architecture, MCP, LLM tool integrations, agent-facing API design, ClickHouse, Kafka, or similar high-volume data infrastructure

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work • Distributed, remote-first work environment • Ability to work from almost any country, subject to country restrictions • Inclusive work environment • Visa sponsorship policy stated: Fingerprint does not sponsor visas