Staff Software Engineer (Backend, Identity Decisioning)

Join our team as a Staff Software Engineer (Backend, Identity Decisioning). In this role, you will set the technical strategy for your team, collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle, and take ownership of your team's operations and availability. You will also foster a culture of quality and ownership, help develop talent on your team, and enjoy a range of benefits including remote work, generous time off, and health benefits.

• Setting technical strategy for the team and aligning it with critical business-impacting projects.
• Collaborating across teams in the product development lifecycle to ensure technical sustainability and manage risks.
• Taking ownership of the team’s operations and availability, ensuring proper monitoring, triage rotations, and testing are in place.

• You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field