Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer Authentication Platform)
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JobgetherSecurity & IT
CanadaFull-TimeSenior
SalaryCAD $153,000–$213,000 annual base salary
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Job Details
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonJavaKotlinKubernetesMySQL
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using Python, Kotlin, Java, or a comparable modern programming language.
- Experience building highly available distributed systems using technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, relational databases, event-driven architectures, and RPC or API frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to create technical plans and designs for significant features or system components, emphasizing security, simplicity, extensibility, and maintainability.
- Strong software engineering skills, including the ability to make substantial changes safely within large codebases through effective testing, migration strategies, and controlled rollouts.
- Demonstrated ownership of professional growth, including actively seeking feedback and helping other engineers develop through mentorship and technical leadership.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for effective collaboration with distributed engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- Familiarity with authentication and identity standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, WebAuthn/passkeys, FIDO2, JWTs, and public-key cryptography.
- Knowledge of security and assurance frameworks such as NIST Digital Identity Guidelines or PCI DSS.
- Experience designing session management, token issuance, account recovery, or multi-factor authentication systems.
- Familiarity with risk-based or adaptive authentication and the relationship between identity, security, compliance, and fraud controls.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical design and delivery of significant authentication platform capabilities, taking initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operation.
- Build secure, highly available backend systems supporting sign-in, authentication factors, account recovery, step-up authentication, session management, authorization, and identity federation.
- Partner with product management, security, fraud, compliance, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders to shape solutions and make informed technical decisions.
- Translate security, regulatory, fraud, and customer-experience requirements into pragmatic technical designs that balance risk, friction, complexity, and delivery speed.
- Proactively identify and address project, technology, security, reliability, process, and business risks.
- Monitor system health and operational performance through appropriate metrics, escalation processes, and on-call support.
- Establish and improve code review, design, quality, and security standards, sharing best practices through technical documentation, discussions, and presentations.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, hands-on collaboration, feedback, and technical guidance, helping build a strong culture of ownership and continuous development.
- Clearly communicate technical decisions, constraints, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Lead investigations into complex production incidents and implement systemic improvements to prevent recurring issues.
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