Staff Backend Engineer (Customer Identity)

Canada

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. 

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The CIC Team

Awesome tech is made by awesome people. And we’re always looking for new team members who bring the energy, passion, commitment, and collaboration that has made Okta the great company it is today.

So what do we exactly build? Okta CIC is an authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. Basically, we make companies’ login boxes safe, secure, and seamless for anyone logging in. Our mission is to secure the world’s identities so innovators can innovate. But it’s a big mission that requires a lot of teamwork.

The Staff Full stack Engineer Opportunity

We’re currently hiring a Full Stack Staff Software Engineer to join our Subscription Management Engineering Team. This team is focused on supercharging the next phase of Okta CIC’s growth by owning and improving the products that manage subscriptions and entitlements. We own pricing execution from an engineering perspective, and also entitlements that allow customers to get specific items and features that they paid for. This team is incredibly important due to us touching a key part of every customer’s experience. Additionally, this engineering team has the ability to bring in new money for the business (by being creative with subscription and entitlements implementation and design), which elevates our importance and gives engineers on this team greater visibility at the company level.

What you’ll be doing 

  • Build new and maintain current features by contributing across the whole technical stack.

  • Interface with a large variety of stakeholders to understand how entitlements should be designed and function.

  • Work with the pricing council to develop and roll out new subscription plans.

  • Heavily influence the team culture and iterate upon the ways we work together.

  • Mentor team members and help build processes and patterns that set them up for success.

  • Collaborate across teams to solve technical and non-technical challenges.

  • Work primarily with React/Redux, TypeScript, NodeJS, MongoDB and PostgreSQL.

  • Debug and resolve production issues and implement fixes for them.

  • Work closely with Product and Design to determine and optimize user experience and information architecture.

What you’ll bring to the role

  • Have a passion for learning.

  • Thrive in a fast-paced environment, where change is the only constant.

  • Are very comfortable designing, writing, and operating full-stack applications.

  • Have 5+ years experience with NodeJS and RESTful APIs.

  • Have an expert level understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript.

  • Have the ability to be self-directed and be effective working independently, yet feel equally comfortable contributing in a team environment.

  • Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results.

  • Have excellent communication and collaboration skills.

  • Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative, remote-friendly environment.

  • Are able to help lead and mentor members of the team.

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following! 

  • Being part of distributed teams and work environments.

  • Working on a growth or onboarding team.

  • Experience with pricing, packaging, subscriptions, or purchasing

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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:$135,000$203,000 CAD

What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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