Software Engineer, Frontend
About The Position
Squarespace is looking for a frontend-focused engineer who enjoys owning features end-to-end. While your expertise is building exceptional user experiences, you're comfortable working across the stack to deliver secure, scalable identity solutions. You will join the Identity & Access Management (IAM) team, where we architect the mission-critical authentication, authorization, and account security frameworks that safeguard millions of users worldwide. We own the systems powering sign-in, sign-up, account recovery, multi-factor authentication, passkeys, OAuth, and identity verification. Our mission is to make security seamless - creating intuitive user experiences while building highly reliable and secure backend systems. If you are a Frontend Engineer who strives to go beyond what is possible in a web browser, we want to hear from you! You will report to the Engineering Manager in our New York City headquarters.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software development experience, with an emphasis on modern frontend technologies (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React) and building delightful user interfaces.
- Extensive experience developing large-scale application software
- Are motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact doing so.
- Have experience and interest in contributing to services around OAuth, WebAuthN, IdentityProviders, Identity and Access Management
- Familiarity with backend development using Node.js, Java, Go, or similar technologies.
- A strong understanding of, and practical experience with, web application development
- A sincere commitment to crafting readable and dependable code
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related or equivalent industry experience
- 3+ years of experience
Responsibilities
- Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems across all business units.
- Build elegant user experiences that enable Squarespace teams to easily add authentication, authorizations and security features to products and services.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, platform, data, security and legal.
- Help define frontend architecture, engineering standards, testing strategies, and developer experience.
- Integrate frontend applications with OAuth, OIDC, session management, and authorization services.
Benefits
- A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums including medical, dental, and vision
- Supplemental Life and Disability Insurance plans
- Fertility and adoption benefits
- Headspace mindfulness app subscription
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement benefits with employer match
- Flexible paid time off
- 12 weeks paid parental leave and family care leave
- Pretax commuter benefit
- Education reimbursement
- Employee donation match to community organizations
- 7 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Dog-friendly workplace
- Free lunch and snacks
- Private rooftop
- Hack week twice per year
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
