Software Engineering Manager, Basis
Auth Team
$136.9-185k
Advertising automation platform for omnichannel media
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Advertising automation platform for omnichannel media
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$136.9-185k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To develop software and services that support the increasingly complex digital media landscape - and to improve the lives of the people working inside it.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 8 years of professional engineering experience, including time in a leadership or management role
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, including hiring, performance management, and career development for a team of software engineers
- Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (token flows, JWKS validation, scopes, audience restrictions, etc)
- Hands-on experience with ReBAC systems (OpenFGA, Zanzibar, SpiceDB), including modeling authorization schemas, writing and testing tuple-based policies, and reasoning about permission evaluation performance
- Experience with Auth0 or comparable identity providers (Okta, Azure AD, Keycloak)
- Strong proficiency in backend languages such as Java, Ruby, or Python as well as web frameworks such as Spring Boot, Rails, or Django
- Fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) as a core part of the development workflow — for code generation, debugging, exploration of unfamiliar codebases, and documentation — paired with strong judgment for evaluating, refining, and taking full ownership of AI-generated output
- Thoughtful approach to collaboration, design, and decision-making that prioritizes equity, access, and continuous learning
- Commitment to creating inclusive, respectful environments where all voices are valued and supported
- Don’t have every skill listed? No problem! We know experience can be built in many ways. If you have relevant skills that aren't reflected in your resume, we encourage you to share them in an optional cover letter
What the job involves
- You will be specializing in technical development of our authentication and authorization platform. Other ways you will contribute:
- Define authorization for our AI-powered agentic workflows and designing how non-human actors authenticate, receive scoped permissions, and operate within the same authorization framework as human users
- Evolve our identity layer in Auth0 to improve authentication, token issuance, and identity federation
- Mature and maintain our Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC) OpenFGA model, which supports all authorization decisions across our infrastructure
- Drive large-scale technical projects that depend on multiple teams and systems. Establish and champion best practices and quality standards with the team
- Set a positive example and mentor others on how to collaborate in pull requests, demos, and working relationships. Contribute to a culture of learning and high standards of technical achievement
- Take ownership over team deliverables, decisions, quality, process, and technical direction. Be accountable for driving projects from ideation through production
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of our application’s business domain and stakeholder needs. Use your knowledge to proactively identify risks and blockers during planning discussions, architecture discussions, and RFCs. Ensure feasibility and alignment between business goals and technical implementation for large-scale projects
- Embody Basis’ core principles while fostering a positive culture within the team. Actively promote Basis in the community
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers through regular 1:1s, career development conversations, and ongoing feedback. Support the team in doing their best work
- Partner with recruiting to grow the Auth team: define hiring criteria, participate in interviews, and onboard new team members effectively
- Own the team’s roadmap and delivery, working with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize, scope, and sequence work while protecting the team’s ability to move with quality and intent
Our take
The landscape of advertisement has changed dramatically over the years, with campaigners now needing to deliver video advertisements quickly and efficiently across a vast range of digital platforms. This is easier said than done, however, with the range of existing advertisement management platforms being slow, segmented, and antiquated.
Basis provides a digital marketing platform that allows users to manage advertisement campaigns across a variety of digital platforms. The demand-side platform provides a variety of automated tools that facilitate publishing quick and large-scale changes to campaigns, in addition to providing analytical insights and other innovative assistance tools.
Whilst other DSPs are providing digital marketing tools for advertisement management, Basis stands out by providing an all-in-one, fully unified platform. By covering all the bases, the company claims to be the first single sign-on media automation platform that can deliver to the variety of channels and vendors required in modernized advertising.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2015
$30m
SERIES B
Dec 2010
$22.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52.5m
Company HQ
Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Shawn Riegsecker
(Founder & CEO)Co-Founder and Co-Chairman at Unite America, and Board Member of the Metropolitan Planning Council. Started their career as Director of Akron Beacon Journal, before VP roles at cleveland.com and Everstream Solutions.
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