We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Authentication & Authorization team. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll apply your technical and domain expertise to design, implement, and maintain secure authentication and authorization systems; drive design discussions, code reviews, and project-related team meetings; and collaborate with other engineers as you develop solutions for our software as a service (SaaS) products that help scientists save time and increase their experiment quality.
You Will:
- Implement new features and bug fixes within our authentication and authorization services
- Work with your immediate team engineers to do technical investigations, solution designs, code implementation with automated tests, and code reviews
- Lead or consult the authoring of engineering design proposals following our product roadmap at BenchSci
- Leverage a deep understanding of the business context and the team’s goals to unlock independent technical decisions in the face of open-ended requirements
- Proactively identify new opportunities (from both internal and external sources) and advocate for and implement improvements to the current state of projects
- Adhere to and improve our high standards of highly scalable and maintainable code
- Help set a high standard for exceptional engineers who are outcome-oriented and positively contribute to the team's culture
- Be given an unmatched opportunity for accelerated growth and learn from a team of world-class engineers
- Provide troubleshooting analysis and resolution in a timely manner
- Work on projects involving some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world
- Solve difficult problems and bring new perspectives to the team
You Have:
- A degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related field within science
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with authentication solutions and SSO
- High comfort working with a Python back-end and a React/Typescript front-end
- 4+ years of experience working as a professional full-stack developer
Nice-to-Haves, But Not Mandatory Qualifications:
- Experience with Auth0 or similar Identity as a Service (IDaaS) platform
- Experience working with a security-first mindset, including knowledge of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and secure coding practices
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
- Experience with SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect
- Experience with RBAC or ABAC authorization models
