A high-growth, remote-first SaaS company building an AI-powered platform that helps small businesses manage and grow their operations is hiring a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to take significant ownership of identity and access management across a rapidly scaling product. This is a hands-on IC role for someone who enjoys solving complex authentication, authorization, and permissions problems while influencing broader technical direction.
What you’ll do
- Design and build authentication, authorization, and identity infrastructure
- Develop SSO, access-management, and permissions services at scale
- Own complex backend projects from architecture through production
- Improve the reliability, security, and scalability of business-critical systems
- Partner with product and engineering teams to translate customer needs into durable technical solutions
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, and thoughtful decision-making
What they’re looking for
- 5+ years of backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience
- Hands-on experience building authentication, authorization, or identity systems
- Experience with SSO, access management, or authorization services at scale
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals
- Proficiency with TypeScript or JavaScript; Node.js experience is highly relevant
- A track record of increasing ownership and technical scope
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving, high-accountability environment
Details
- Remote within the United States or Canada, excluding Quebec
- $210,000-250,000 base salary, depending on level and experience
- Meaningful equity
- Candidates must already be authorized to work in the U.S. or Canada