Location: San Francisco, New York, Remote

What we’re looking for

Stytch is the platform for user authentication. We build infrastructure that sits in the critical path of our customer’s applications. As a backend engineer, you’ll work on designing and building systems to be secure and highly reliable as well as building intuitive APIs for our customers.

What Excites You

A collaborative environment with a tight feedback loop between the work you do and the impact it has on users
Solving problems with pragmatic solutions — you know when to make trade offs between complexity and shipping quickly
Building products that make developers lives easier — as a back end engineer for a developer infrastructure company, what you build will have an immediate impact on our customers
Shaping the culture and growing the team through recruiting, mentorship, and establishing best practices
Learning new skills and technologies in a fast paced environment

What Excites Us

Familiarity with Go, Node, Kubernetes, gRPC
Experience designing and building highly reliable back end systems
6+ years as a back end engineer

What Success Looks Like

Technical — build new, highly reliable services that our customers can depend on
Ownership — advocate for projects and solutions that you believe in and ship them to production
Leadership — level up your teammates by providing mentorship and guidance

Our Tech Stack

Go for backend services
Node and Typescript for our web services
Next.js and React/Typescript on the frontend
Swift for our iOS sdk and Kotlin for the Android sdk
We run on AWS with Kubernetes for containerization
gRPC and protobufs for internal service communication

We’re looking to hire a GREAT team and that means hiring people who are highly empathetic, ambitious, and excited about building the future of user authentication. You should feel empowered to apply for this role even if your experience doesn’t exactly match up to our job description (our job descriptions are directional and not perfect recipes for exactly what we need). We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workspace where everyone (regardless of age, education, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or any personal characteristics) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!