Backend Engineer, Stytch
Product
$155-190k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
User infrastructure and passwordless authentication
Open for applications
User infrastructure and passwordless authentication
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$155-190k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To eliminate friction on the internet while improving security.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years as a backend engineer or backend-leaning full-stack engineer
- Familiarity with frontend (ability to debug on FE as needed, but FE expertise not required)
- Previous experience with Go, Typescript, or another strongly-typed language
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer on the Product Engineering team, you'll partner with leadership to ensure that our product experiences are truly best-in-class by architecting solutions across our technology stack, overseeing the design and execution of the team’s projects, and ultimately working on the most critical projects on our product roadmap
- A collaborative environment with a tight feedback loop between the work you do and the impact it has on users
- Mentoring engineers across Stytch — you have a passion for helping engineers grow and learn and are excited to help grow the future engineering leaders of the company
- Designing for the future, and building for the present — you have a vision for the systems you work on, but know how to build incremental milestones, and when to make trade-offs between completeness and utility to get to value fast
- You love code — you’re a pro at building roadmaps and design docs, but you don’t like stopping there. You’re incredibly proud of the code you write and review, and like staying close to the systems you own
- Putting your stamp on the team — shaping the culture and growing the team through recruiting leadership and senior engineers, and working closely with engineering managers to develop the operations and processes that allow the team to execute at the highest level
- Building products that make developers lives easier — both internally and externally. You’re excited to make our systems easy to use and safe for internal developers, as well as the impact your work will have on Stytch’s customers
- What Success Looks Like
- Technical — build new, highly reliable services that our customers can depend on in their critical path. Improve our existing systems to be both delightful and safe to build on for Stytch developers, as well as performant, reliable, and secure for our customers
- Ownership — partner with your manager to build the roadmap for the team, partner with product to prioritize the most critical work and projects, and then ship it to production
- Leadership — level up the team and the industry by growing the next generation of full-stack engineers at Stytch
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 whilst Stytch’s line of attack is successful, it will nevertheless need to remain sharp in its development of new solutions.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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