Imprint careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Imprint has raised a $15M seed in 2020 led by Thrive Capital with Affirm participating, a $38M Series A in November 2021 co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Stripe, a $75M Series B in November 2023 led by Ribbit Capital at a $240M post-money valuation, a $75M Series C in October 2024 led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures at $600M, a further $70M in July 2025 at $900M, and a $150M Series D on December 17, 2025 led by Khosla Ventures at a $1.2B valuation, with Thrive Capital, Ribbit Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Hedosophia, Spice Capital and Timeless participating. Announced equity rounds add up to roughly $420M. On the debt side it has a $300M credit facility from Citibank (September 2024), a $500M facility from Mizuho, Truist and HSBC (March 2025), about $1.5B of bank credit lines in total, and a $300M inaugural securitization rated AAA by Fitch. Thrive Capital incubated the company: its partner Gaurav Ahuja is a co-founder and chairman.

Imprint builds and runs co-branded credit card programs for consumer brands, plus deposit accounts and installment loans, on its own issuing and processing platform, ImprintCore. A brand such as H-E-B, Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, Booking.com, Fetch, Shell, Eddie Bauer, Brooks Brothers or Turkish Airlines gets a card its customers apply for inside the brand's app or site, with instant credit decisions, SKU-level rewards and servicing that stays in the brand's voice. Imprint handles the technology, underwriting, fraud, rewards and a bilingual in-house call center, while regulated sponsor banks (First Electronic Bank, First Bank and Trust) sit underneath, on the Visa, Mastercard and American Express networks. New programs launch in about three months against the 12 to 18 months typical of bank issuers.

Founded in New York in 2020, Imprint reported $15M of revenue in 2023 and $70M in 2024, passed 400,000 cardholders with about $450M of loans outstanding by March 2025, and grew its cardholder base 200% year over year in 2025. In July 2025 it beat incumbent banks in a competitive bid for the Rakuten card; a current posting describes a company of over 220 employees that is nearly doubling revenue year over year. Forbes listed it among its Next Billion-Dollar Startups in 2024 and its Fintech 50 in 2025.

Daragh Murphy, CEO and co-founder. Irish lawyer turned operator. Corporate associate at WilmerHale in New York, then McKinsey from 2015, then an operating role in pricing and sales strategy at WeWork (described as VP of operations and strategy), which he left in 2019 before founding Imprint in 2020 with Thrive Capital's backing. LL.B. from University College Dublin and an LL.M., magna cum laude, from Duke University School of Law; first came to the United States on a J-1 visa for a summer in Chicago.

Gaurav Ahuja, Chairman and co-founder. Partner at Thrive Capital from 2017, where he incubated Imprint and steered Murphy from a credit-union tech idea toward co-branded cards; earlier a technology investor at TA Associates. Founded the seed fund Timeless in 2024, has sat on the boards of Check, dutchie, Parafin and Stytch, and was a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in venture capital in 2023. Graduated with high distinction from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

Michael Pechman, Co-founder. Former Director at Thrive Capital and a colleague of Ahuja's there, with earlier roles at Google and McKinsey. B.S. in finance and management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (2011). Now founder and CEO of Glidepath AI.

Imprint is one of the few startups that has actually taken co-brand card programs away from banks. CEO Daragh Murphy told CNBC in July 2025: "We're talking to Fortune 500 companies about being their partner and them choosing us over Synchrony, over Barclays, over U.S. Bank." The company owns the whole stack rather than renting Fiserv-style processors, which is the argument for why it can win: "The banks are in trouble because they don't own the technology that the credit card runs on." Engineers work on the real thing: transaction authorization, ledger accounting, credit decisioning, rewards engines and payment processing, and the backend postings say you will build net-new products, not only maintain existing ones.

The company is explicitly trying to stay small and leveraged rather than grow to a thousand people. VP of Engineering Annie Zhou, who spent nearly a decade building Square's data platform, wrote in May 2026 that she joined because it is a growth-stage company with genuine upside, with moats in regulatory trust, bank partnerships, network certifications and multi-year brand contracts, and that migrated programs have shown 2x wallet share, 8x lifetime value and a 20% spend lift. CTO Will Larson (previously CTO at Carta and Calm) runs a written AI adoption strategy with three pillars: pave the path, opportunity everywhere, leadership from the front. Senior engineer Steph Lee, who joined not knowing Go, said: "Given the fast pace here, there was no way I could have started working immediately and gotten things done without using AI."

Six values are written on the careers page: build the best way to pay, grow, lead with clarity, be optimistic and humble together, own a high bar, and relationships over transactions. The language is demanding on purpose. "We are here to build a big, high-growth business with great margins. We can only do this by setting ambitious targets and exceeding them, pushing beyond our comfort zones." And: "Excellence isn't optional when you serve the biggest brands on earth. We demand the best from ourselves and each other, holding a high standard with a strong sense of ownership. We give each other direct feedback because making Imprint better is everyone's responsibility."

Employees describe it the same way. Jen Leon, VP of Product Marketing: "If you're deeply curious, love getting into the weeds, and want your work to have a real impact, you'll thrive at Imprint. Ideas can come from anywhere, and you can grow and move across the company based on your interests, as I have. It's fast-paced and high-impact, and also a place where ambitious, kind people genuinely care about our members, our partners, and each other." Partner conversions, when a brand's existing card portfolio migrates onto Imprint, are described by a senior engineer as "very much an all-hands-on-deck effort" and "a full company push", followed by a full retro.

AI use is expected, not optional. Backend postings list "learning how to leverage AI tools is a core consideration for how we work" and ask for experience with code assistants, MCP servers or agentic workflows. Prompts are centralized in Notion so teams rather than individuals own them, and engineers describe doing most day-to-day work in Claude Code with MCP connections to Jira, Notion, Datadog, GitHub and Figma, with Codex and Macroscope giving a first-pass review on every pull request before a teammate reviews it.

Imprint posts pay bands and a "What success looks like in the first 90 days" section on most roles, so you can see exactly what you would be judged on before applying. Backend postings ask for 10+ years of production experience at Staff level, proficiency in Go or a similar language with willingness to ramp quickly, on-call and incident experience, and comfort designing API contracts consumed by external partners; the same postings add "We don't expect every candidate to check every box" and "If you're excited about what we're building and confident you can contribute, we'd love to talk."

Applications go through Ashby (jobs.ashbyhq.com/imprint). On Glassdoor, as of 2026, candidates rate the interview difficulty 2.9 out of 5. All 24 open roles in September 2026 are in the United States and the company does not publish a visa sponsorship policy.