# Staff Software Engineer - UI Platform (Toronto)

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-$200,000 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Okta, we're building a world where anyone can safely use any technology. As a Staff Software Engineer on our UI Platform team, you'll define the forward-looking vision for Okta's UI platform infrastructure. You'll work with a globally distributed engineering team to build frameworks and systems that empower feature teams to deliver world-ready software.

Responsibilities:

- Define, own, and drive the architectural vision and technical roadmap for a major UI platform subsystem

- Serve as the definitive design reviewer for high-impact proposals and cross-team interface specifications

- Drive cross-functional alignment and resolve technical ambiguity for initiatives spanning multiple product teams

- Shape a culture of continuous learning by proactively sharing knowledge and mentoring Senior Engineers

- Empower developers by building reusable components and robust design patterns

- Be a hands-on contributor, driving the implementation and ensuring technical quality of complex platform components

Requirements:

- 5+ years of software development experience

- Expertise in software architecture and implementation with a strong development background in languages like Java, Python, or C++

- Strong grasp of software engineering designs, principles, and practices with a focus on building scalable and maintainable systems

- Strong communication skills and ability to distill complex concepts into simple narratives

Nice to have:

- Experience defining and implementing internationalization and localization strategies for large-scale enterprise applications

- Deep knowledge of Unicode, ISO standards, and localization frameworks

- Familiarity with globalization testing processes

- Experience being part of a platform team treating developers as customers

We offer:

- Annual base salary range: $160,000-$200,000 CAD

- Equity, bonus, and benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- C++
- React.js
- Node.js
- software architecture
- software engineering

### Nice to have
- internationalization and localization
- Unicode
- ISO standards
- localization frameworks
- globalization testing

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