Senior Software Engineer - AuthN
Location's: Austin, TX, San Jose, CA.
Type of Job: Contract
Responsibilities:
· Engage with multiple teams of highly talented engineers and architects to design and develop
highly scalable, secure and configurable identity solutions that meet the needs of our customers and
stakeholders.
· Actively engage with leadership across Product, Architecture, Design and Engineering to design,
propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality.
· Collaborate with other engineering teams, IT, and business stakeholders to understand
requirements and deliver innovative identity solutions that meet organizational needs.
· Communicate with stakeholders on technical standards, principles, methodologies and trends.
· Enhance overall system operational characteristics by establishing best practices for code
quality, reduction in tech debt, building frameworks or shared techniques to improve engineering
effectiveness.
· Identify opportunities for refactoring, API changes, solution designs and other types of tech debt
remediation.
· Influence management for driving technical decision-making for the right selection of
technology by giving forthright, understandable, and actionable advice.
· Work with standards defining organizations to understand the evolving standards, identify gaps,
provide inputs on platform gaps, contribute to roadmap planning to build world class CIAM platform.
· Drive decision-making with team members with different views for simple to complex problems
with the business requirements to help synthesize the best solution.
· Engage with business team, highly analytical and have experience designing and implementing
A/B tests, with approach like data-based experiments. You know exactly what and how to track
business metrics and KPIs.
Required Skills:
· You must have significant business knowledge and technical expertise in application design
and architecture, as well as knowledge of related domains of technical architectures (network,
security, and infrastructure engineering), information architectures, and data architectures.
· In-depth knowledge of identity management technologies, protocols, and standards, and
competent in designing solutions for reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
· In-depth knowledge of Identity standards such as OAuth 2.0, Open ID Connect, SCIM etc.
· Must be a self- starter, work independently or as a team member, and have strong
communication skills in interfacing with business partners and the Technology.
· Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns,
performance, and scale.
· Deep understanding of application security, information security, web application fundamentals,
authentication & authorization protocols.
· Deep understanding of various customer interacting device, browser, mobile web, Native apps
such as iOS, Android and related working fundamentals.
· Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high
impact customer facing product development.
· You must have experience in modern technologies such as JavaScript, Typescript, React,
NextJs, Node.
· Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API
gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading etc) to implement efficient code.
· Strong OOP skills, with ability to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software
designs.
· Experience with HTTP, REST API's and competent designing and building web
services/microservices in a commercial setting.
· Knowledge of SQL and other/NoSQL/modern database and storage technologies. Desired
understanding of Oracle, JDBC and ORM frameworks (e.g. Hibernate).
· Experience with Design Patterns, MVC and frameworks (e.g. Spring).
· Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Java build tools) and best practices (e.g. unit
testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.).
· Serve as a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that
will improve the quality of the delivered code.
· Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development.
· Deep understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON and
SOAP/WSDL.
· Extra credit: Provide your GitHub account or code samples with your resume!