Staff Software Engineer, Auth/Accounts

Role overview Provide technical leadership for identity, authentication, authorization, and account capabilities that support products and internal operations. The role turns complex security and business needs into architecture and production systems, while coordinating cross-team delivery and raising engineering standards.

Responsibilities - Lead architecture and implementation initiatives across authentication, authorization, account lifecycles, and partner relationships. - Set multi-service technical direction, including API contracts, data models, migration plans, and rollout strategies. - Translate product, security, and business requirements into clear designs and coordinate dependencies across teams. - Build scalable backend services and improve testing, observability, deployment safety, and operational reliability. - Guide engineers across teams through design feedback and mentorship. - Address areas such as centralized authentication and token validation, fine-grained access control, account matching and transfer, legacy decoupling, and event-driven services.

Requirements - Track record of leading cross-team architecture and resolving significant technical trade-offs. - Strong backend skills in API design, distributed systems, data modeling, and production operations. - Experience working on systems where security, correctness, and performance are critical. - Clear technical writing and communication, including aligning non-technical stakeholders and mentoring senior engineers. - Practical use of AI tools for code exploration, design analysis, test generation, debugging, and documentation, with sound judgment about limitations and review needs.

Nice to have Experience with OAuth/OIDC, JWTs, RBAC or ReBAC; Go, Python, Kafka, AWS, or modern CI/CD; security-sensitive, financial, insurance, or partner-integration systems; reusable AI engineering workflows.

Benefits and work setup Remote-first work setup with medical, dental, and vision coverage, a retirement plan with employer matching, flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, a home office stipend, coworking access, and wellness programs.