At AuthZed, we’re redefining how modern applications think about access control. As a Frontend Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of building the UI for AuthZed’s commercial products.
This isn’t just another engineering role - it’s a chance to shape the future of our platform and drive innovation in a startup environment where your expertise and creativity will leave a lasting impact.
You'll work alongside a team of passionate engineers, solving challenging problems in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and authorization models, while contributing directly to the success of customers using AuthZed’s products worldwide.
What You'll Do:Design, plan and implement highly performant frontend platform features
Drive best practices in software development, testing, and CI/CD
Embrace the "operate what you build" philosophy, taking end-to-end ownership of your work - from development and deployment to production operations, and participate in the on-call rotation
Work closely with other engineers, product, and support teams
Showcase your work through technical documentation, blogs, and talks, representing AuthZed as a thought leader in the industry
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience building and scaling frontend applications
Proficiency in modern web frameworks and languages like TypeScript and React
Comfortable applying functional programming, data structures, and algorithms to improve code performance without sacrificing elegance
Experience with kubernetes, RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, Observability, CI/CD pipelines
Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
A proven ability to thrive in remote-first, cross-time-zone teams, collaborating effectively to deliver impactful results in a start-up / scale-up environment
Experience with NextJS
Familiarity with modern authorization systems and access control models
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