The role involves designing developer and user experiences, enhancing product adoption, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to build a secure, user-friendly solution.
About WorkOS 🚀
WorkOS builds tools and services for developers to help them implement authentication, identity, authorization, and overall enterprise readiness. We’re a fully distributed team with employees across North American time zones. We’re well-funded, having raised an $80M Series B. Our fast-growing customer base includes hundreds of rapidly growing SaaS companies like OpenAI, Vercel, Plaid, Perplexity, and Cursor.
About the role 💭
The AuthKit team is responsible for building AuthKit: a set of UI and APIs that enable B2B developers to solve identity and authentication. Our goal is to build the best possible developer and end-user experiences so customers can onboard seamlessly and kick-start their enterprise journey.
Our engineers obsess over the developer experience, actively seeking out feedback and new perspectives to inform the products we build. We’re searching for engineers who share this empathetic approach to solving problems. Successful candidates will love taking ideas from zero to one, creating beautiful software experiences with modern tools, and care deeply about creating the best possible products.
Responsibilities ✔️
- Design and engineer delightful developer and end-user experiences
- Build a deep understanding of AuthKit’s place in the market and increase its adoption
- Accrete developer trust by serving a highly available and secure product
- Speak with customers regularly to get feedback, debug issues, and remove points of friction
- Collaborate with other product teams, solutions engineering, and our go-to-market team
- Work directly with leadership on greenfield ideas
- Help recruit and assess future engineering team members
Qualifications 🌟
- 5+ years of industry software development experience
- Experience working on small teams in fast-paced environments
- Background in crafting both polished UI/UX and API services end-to-end
- Intellectually curious, independently driven, and passionate about great products
- A growth mindset, high emotional intelligence, and strong communication skills
- Bonus: Experience with our stack of TypeScript, React, and Postgres
- Bonus: Experience in B2B SaaS, developer tools, or a related industry
The annual US base salary falls within the range of $175,000 to $250,000. This range does not encompass the full spectrum of benefits such as equity, health insurance, vacation time, and paid parental leave. This salary range covers multiple levels of engineering roles and final compensation will be determined considering various factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications.
Benefits (US Only) 💖
At WorkOS, we offer resources that emphasize personal and familial well-being. We offer healthcare coverage for you and your family, including medical, dental, and vision. We offer parental leave, paid-time off and fully remote working arrangements.
Benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Substantial equity grants
- Healthcare insurance (Medical, Dental and Vision) for you and your family
- 401k matching
- Wellness and fitness monthly allowances
- PTO + paid holidays + unlimited sick leave
- Autonomy and flexibility with remote work
Please inquire directly with our recruiting team for benefits available to those working outside the US.
Equal Opportunity Employer
WorkOS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age.
Top Skills
Postgres
React
Typescript
WorkOS San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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