Description
Join the team as a Senior Software Engineer for Stytch, where you'll shape the next generation of identity products.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help scale Stytch’s core product as we bring Stytch capabilities to Twilio’s full customer base, delivering secure, developer-first identity experiences. You’ll build backend APIs that power authentication, authorization, and emerging agentic and non-human identity use cases. You’ll partner closely with product and engineering leadership to design and deliver high-impact customer-facing features, and evolve our platform for Twilio’s scale.
This is a rare chance to operate like a startup within Twilio: you’ll work in a high-ownership environment with startup speed, backed by Twilio’s reach and scale.
Responsibilities:
- Build and own backend product capabilities for Stytch’s identity platform on Twilio,shipping new API surfaces and core authentication flows, including agentic and non-human identity use cases.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to set direction, translate customer needs into product capabilities, and deliver high-impact roadmap features.
- Collaborate across Twilio and Stytch teams to align on architecture, integrate platform capabilities, and unblock cross-team initiatives.
- Operate with deep technical ownership: author design docs, drive key technical decisions, review code, and stay close to the systems you ship.
- Build in ambiguity,break down complex problems, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and design developer experiences that delight our customers.
- Improve production quality and resilience through strong observability, incident response and remediation.
- Mentor and support other engineers through pairing, feedback, and knowledge-sharing, helping raise the team’s technical bar and culture.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years experience in designing, building and operating high-scale, mission critical cloud based production systems.
- Familiarity with a production-grade code base in a modern programming language, applying best practice coding standards and writing high quality code.
- Extensive experience with RESTful API design and development.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related industry experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Schedule: ability to work non-standard, on-call rotation weekend and holiday hours.
Desired:
- Familiarity with Go, TypeScript, and DynamoDB
- Experience building developer tools or SDKs
- Experience building and owning products consumed by paying customers
- Builder at heart. Through a hobby or your profession, you are passionate about being hands on and seeing your work come to life.