Open Source Security Engineers in EU for US based Fingerprint
Domain: security
Founded: 2019
The company
Fingerprint empowers developers to stop online fraud at the source. They work on turning radical new ideas in the fraud detection space into reality. The products are developer-focused and the clients range from solo developers to publicly traded companies, including Coinbase, Booking.com, Target, and Yahoo.
This is a globally dispersed, 100% remote company with a strong open-source focus. Their flagship open source project is FingerprintJS (18K stars on GitHub).
Fingerprint has raised $44M and is backed by Craft Ventures (previously invested in Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb), Nexus VP (previously invested in Postman & Hasura), and Uncorrelated Ventures (previously invested in Redis, Rollbar & Gradle).
Tech stack
TypeScript, React, react-query, SCSS, Jest, Storybook, Cypress,Express, TypeORM
PostgreSQL, Jest
Golang, DynamoDB, Elastic BeanStalk
AWS, Github Actions, Netlify
Grafana, CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus
The project
Fingerprint is a US company with a fully remote engineering team. We were hiring for Golang, iOS, and JavaScript roles throughout Europe, targeting only top notch senior profiles with security and privacy knowledge or at least keen interest. Since open source contributions were also very important to have, we mainly used GitHub to source for the candidates, assessing their GitHub activity before reaching out.
Eventually we were able to fill in 2 roles, and one of our hires is an ex-Google employee.
Hiring process
🐝 A 30 mins screening call with Bee’s Knees:
Pitching Fingerprint to the candidate
Questions to the candidate about their experience
Asking about security knowledge and open source contributions
Questions to the candidate related to their motivation and cultural fit
Questions to the candidate related to salary, availability, notice period
1️⃣ Screening call with Fingerprint’s recruiter
2️⃣ Homework
3️⃣ A live coding interview with a team lead
4️⃣ Final interview with the CTO
Results
🎯 Hires: 2
🧑💻 Roles filled:
Golang Engineer
JavaScript Engineer
📍 Location: EU