Engineering Manager, Stytch
Platform
$230-280k
+ Equity
User infrastructure and passwordless authentication
Job no longer available
User infrastructure and passwordless authentication
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$230-280k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To eliminate friction on the internet while improving security.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building systems, both in code and cloud infrastructure, that can support complex products at scale
- 5+ years as a backend engineer, platform engineer or infrastructure engineer
- 1+ years experience managing a team
- Experience with security and compliance
What the job involves
- As the engineering manager for our platform engineering teams, you'll work on building and monitoring our cloud infrastructure, as well as enabling partner engineering teams to build ambitious authentication products quickly and safely by building the scalable and performant services they run on
- You’ll also be directly responsible for ensuring the excellence of our internal development toolkit, upleveling every engineer across the org
- Solving problems with pragmatic solutions — you know when to make trade offs between complexity and shipping quickly
- Shaping the culture and growing the team through recruiting, mentorship, establishing best practices, and developing and empowering engineers on your team
- Learning new skills and technologies in a fast paced environment — as a small start up, things move quickly
- Partnering with engineers and peers to craft strategy and a roadmap that accomplishes our ambitious company goals
- Fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high performing team culture
- Development — provide guidance and mentorship to develop the engineers on your team into future engineering leaders
- Ownership — build team processes and culture to drive execution
- Leadership — lead by example and set direction and vision for the engineering organization
- Our Tech Stack:
- Go for back end services
- Node and Typescript for our web services
- React and Next.js on the front end
- Swift for our iOS SDK and Kotlin for the Android SDK
- We run on AWS with Kubernetes for containerization
- We utilize Github Actions, Flux, ArgoCD for our CI/CD
- GRPC and protobufs for internal service communication
Our take
Passwords don’t typically offer the levels of security they once did, and we need more of them than ever - leading to poor security practices and a huge volume of subsequent data breaches. Some startups have emerged to help manage them; Stytch, however, is part of a growing cohort looking to cut them out entirely.
The idea is to make navigating digital space frictionless. To this end, Stytch has developed an out-of-the-box, easy-to-deploy version of about a dozen passwordless authentication solutions. It has seen a sharper increase in users and funding than rival startups like Magic, which it puts down to an API-first product, which is less limiting in its application than the widgets we’ve seen developed by earlier entrants to the space.
That alone, however, won’t be enough to push it ahead of other highly successful innovators in the space. Transmit Security has received record-breaking backing for its biometrics-led approach. This goes to show how far the market is betting on a passwordless future, and Stytch's acquisition by customer engagement platform Twilio exemplifies this trend.
Steph
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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$90m
SERIES B
Jul 2021
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $126m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance - Did we miss anything? Your health matters, more than anything else
- Parental leave - There's more than one way to be a parent. That's why we offer 12-16 weeks paid parental leave, whether birthing, adopting, or fostering
- Unlimited PTO - With a 3 week minimum, and at least one full week taken off per year
- Lunches & dinner in-office - Because clever brains need feeding
- Commuter benefits in SF & NYC - We’ll help you get from A > B when traveling to our offices
- And then some - Recurring wellness, professional development, music streaming + WFH + office supply stipends, company offsites, and regular hackweeks. Phew!
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Reed McGinley-Stempel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Associate Consultant with Bain & Company, before moving into a Product Manager role at Plaid.
Julianna Lamb
(Co-Founder & CTO)A Stanford Computer Science grad, who went on to work as a Software Engineer at Strava and Plaid before becoming a Very Good Security Product Manager.
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