Experienced Software Engineer

Position Overview

Stytch is the most powerful identity platform built for developers. With advanced features like device fingerprinting and account takeover-resistant authentication, Stytch provides the infrastructure to make your company's identity and access management secure, reliable, and scalable. As an Experienced Software Engineer, you'll partner with leadership to ensure that our product experiences are best-in-class by architecting solutions across our technology stack, overseeing the design and execution of team projects, and working on the most critical initiatives on our product roadmap.

This is a hybrid, full-time position based in the SF Bay Area. Location: SF Bay Area
Schedule: Hybrid, full-time (3 days per week in-office)

Key Responsibilities

• A collaborative environment with a tight feedback loop between your work and its impact on users.
• Mentoring engineers across Stytch and helping grow future engineering leaders.
• Designing for the future while building incremental milestones and making timely trade-offs.
• Writing and reviewing high-quality code and staying close to the systems you own.
• Shaping team culture through recruiting leadership and collaborating with engineering managers.
• Building products that simplify authentication for both internal developers and customers.
• Technical ownership by building new, reliable services and improving existing systems.
• Partnering with managers and product teams to define and execute the roadmap.
• Leading and nurturing the growth of full-stack engineers at Stytch.

Required Qualifications

• Experience Required: 5+ years as a backend or backend-leaning full-stack engineer
• Qualifications: Familiarity with frontend (ability to debug on FE as needed, though deep FE expertise is not required)
• Qualifications: Familiarity with Go, Node.js, TypeScript, and React

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with Go for backend services
• Experience with Node and TypeScript for web services
• Familiarity with Next.js and React/TypeScript on the frontend
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes for containerization
• Understanding of gRPC and protobufs for internal service communication

Benefits & Perks

• Salary: $185,000-$225,000 per year
• Benefits: Full benefits including equity, health care insurance, time off, and paid parental leave