Director, Secure Identity Platform Development

OneSpan; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

OneSpan in San Jose, CA, seeks a Director of Software Development to own the delivery of scalable, secure backend services for authentication platforms. You will set technical direction, lead distributed engineering teams, and collaborate with Product, Security, and Platform to ship features protecting customers’ transactions.

You will mentor managers and engineers, drive zero-downtime deployments, and champion AI-assisted development to boost velocity and quality.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software product delivery experience, building and operating products at scale for SaaS and/or on-premise customers.
• 8+ years leading distributed, multi-team engineering organizations.
• Proven experience with identity and authentication platforms.
• Strong background designing and scaling distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience with zero-downtime deployments and production-grade, highly available systems.
• Experience delivering products backed by both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-based deployment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Set technical and product strategy for our authentication and identity platforms, partnering with Product Management on roadmap and priorities.
• Lead distributed engineering teams through the design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure REST APIs and backend services.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and hands-on guidance for engineering managers and senior engineers.
• Drive scalability, reliability, and security across distributed systems, including zero-downtime deployments, observability, and resilience practices.
• Partner with Product, Security, and Platform teams to deliver high-impact features on schedule.
• Present and demonstrate product capabilities and technical vision to internal stakeholders, customers, and partners.
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development practices to improve engineering velocity and quality.

Skills

Software delivery

Leadership

Identity platforms

REST APIs

Security

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud deployment

Job description

OneSpan in San Jose, CA, seeks a Director of Software Development to own the delivery of scalable, secure backend services for authentication platforms. You will set technical direction, lead distributed engineering teams, and collaborate with Product, Security, and Platform to ship features protecting customers’ transactions.

You will mentor managers and engineers, drive zero-downtime deployments, and champion AI-assisted development to boost velocity and quality.