Full-stack Senior SWE

ISV Ecosystem (Full-stack Senior SWE) Job Description

About Okta:

Okta is The World’s Identity Company with a mission to free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce Identity and Customer Identity offerings enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are looking for lifelong learners who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

About the team:

As part of our vision to Free Everyone to Safely Connect to any Technology, Okta is investing to help B2B / Enterprise SaaS companies engage with their customers by leveraging the Okta Integration Network (OIN) platform.

We are building an express capability that allows Auth0-built SaaS applications in the OIN to integrate with Identity Providers through a ‘federated’ connection in a seamless, and simplest manner. This allows the customers of Okta to install these B2B SaaS apps in their tenants using the fewest possible clicks, thus ensuring their satisfaction and retention.

Join us in building the next generation of a streamlined Partner journey within Okta, as we increase its footprint to even broader capabilities.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join an innovative and fast moving full-stack team to build a new set of developer-facing products to achieve this mission. We welcome personalities that are self-driven, think outside-the-box, take pride in shipping high quality software and most importantly kind.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyze/Refine Requirements with Product Management and other stakeholders by asking the right questions and driving clarity.
• Work with user experience designers and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies.
• Develop secure and reusable components to enable other teams to easily implement UIs with rich and consistent look and feel.
• Develop APIs and SDKs that developers love. The target audience for this team’s roadmap is the developers working at the B2B Enterprise SaaS companies.
• Have a high bar for security, test-driven development, design reviews and code reviews while harboring a sense of urgency.
• Define long-term observability and reliability metrics for the systems/features that they own.

Required Skills, Attitude and Knowledge:

• Have 4-6 years of software development experience.
• Proficient in building scalable and performant applications with NodeJS (Typescript, JavaScript)
• Experience building highly responsive UI components using React
• An understanding of asynchronous programming, its quirks and workarounds
• Demonstrable knowledge of HTTP fundamentals with strong API Design skills.
• Have experience working with at least one of the database technologies - MySQL, Redis, or PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with at least one cloud-native system of scale (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with distributed systems patterns including caching, asynchronous processing etc.
• Track record of delivering work incrementally to get feedback and iterating over solutions.
• Have an infectious enthusiasm and bring the right attitude to the team regarding ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.
• Excellent written communication skills, bringing structure to ambiguous concepts, and driving closure on them methodically using first principles.

Bonus:

• Existing knowledge of Identity Protocols such as OAuth, OIDC and SAML
• Existing knowledge of security engineering and application security

Education and Training:

• B.S. Computer Science or related field

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Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 19,300 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.