Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not Specified
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $150K - $250K
• Privy is seeking a Backend Engineer to take on significant ownership within the company's product, architecture, and infrastructure. As a developer-focused tool, engineering and product are closely intertwined, emphasizing intuitive interfaces, simplicity, and rapid iteration. The goal is to build a company and products users love.

Requirements

• Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale.
• Understanding of modern API development best practices and design.
• Experience in building data models, managing database migrations, and establishing infrastructure configuration best practices.
• Experience writing delightful developer documentation.

Responsibilities

• Build core Privy features and infrastructure to advance the company's security posture and safeguard data and assets for tens of millions of users.
• Design and implement product features end-to-end, driven by user needs.
• Build service infrastructure to support a fast-growing product and user base, and invest in the internal developer experience.
• Advocate for usability and interface coherence across the team and product.

Bonus Points

• Experience with React, Typescript, Next.js, AWS/Terraform, Vercel.
• Written open-source developer tooling.
• Published about your work (open source code, internal or external presentations, blog posts, etc.).
• Past experience working in authentication or security.

Company Information

Privy is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of background, identity, or status. Engineering at Privy focuses on building software that turns complex technical systems into delightful developer tools, using open-source principles and transparency. They encourage experimentation and curiosity to build better tooling that empowers developers and their users.