Lead Fullstack Engineer, Authentication & Authorization

Join our team at ASAPP, where we're developing transformative Vertical AI designed to improve customer experience. Recognized by Forbes AI 50, ASAPP designs generative AI solutions that transform the customer engagement practices of Fortune 500 companies. With our automation and simplified work processes, we empower people to reach their full potential and create exceptional experiences for everyone involved. Work with our team of talented researchers, engineers, scientists, and specialists to help solve some of the biggest and most complex problems the world is facing.

The team’s purpose is to enable secure, reliable and scalable authentication & authorization systems for our full set of products that ASAPP offers. We solve complex challenges to integrate our enterprise customers and their users into our applications in a seamless way using secure mechanisms like SSO, MFA, JWTs as well as striving for high levels of reliability and scalability. 

You’ll have the opportunity to work on core services that impact the whole organization, deal with scalability problems, look after making our systems even more secure, and also drive the user experience that each of our clients’ users will go through to access ASAPP's offering. If you like working on innovative solutions that provide a high standard of efficiency, resiliency, and quality, then this is a team for you!

What you'll do

• Join a team of talented engineers to lead the building, improvement & maintenance of authentication and authorization systems for our full set of product users
• Collaborate with other teams and product on authentication and authorization needs
• Continuously improve our platform in terms of resiliency, performance, and scalability
• Create user interfaces & libraries to handle user authentication flows
• Collaborate to take our development to the next level: bring new ideas, frameworks, technologies and best practices
• Stay up to date with the latest web technologies and share your knowledge as appropriate
• Look after security aspects of our authentication and authorization systems
• Be a part of the on-call rotation

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• At least 8+ years of software development experience working as a fullstack developer (but we have roles open for more experienced developers as well!)
• Core programming proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or NodeJS
• Experience developing backend web services
• JavaScript knowledge and experience working with React
• Knowledge of Cookies, LocalStorage and browser features to manage auth credentials
• Experience integrating with identity management/brokering systems (Okta, Auth0, Keycloak, etc.)
• Excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Interest in learning and applying Application Security knowledge

What we'd like to see

• A proactive self-starter, curious, energetic and upbeat
• A team player with strong communication and problem-solving skills
• General curiosity and flexibility in working across technologies
• Experience with service-oriented architecture (SOA) and/or REST/RPC APIs
• Experience with Typescript (we use React with Hooks, but we'll teach you if you haven't used it)
• Experience and/or background in Application Security Engineering
• Experience working with Auth0

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Stock options
• OSDE 410 for the family group
• Wellness perks
• Learning & development stipend
• Connectivity (mobile phone & internet) stipend 
• Mac equipment
• 3 weeks of vacation
• English lessons

ASAPP is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. If you have a disability and need assistance with our employment application process, please email us at [email protected] to obtain assistance. #LI-SL1 #LI-Remote