Frontend Engineer, Auth & Access Control

Nominal; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% coverage of medical, dental, and

vision insurance

Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

Professional Development Stipend

Annual company retreat

Job summary

Nominal is hiring a Frontend Software Engineer focused on Auth. You will build permission models, control access across the product, and design interfaces for roles, users, and data sources. You’ll collaborate with backend, design, and product teams to ensure a precise, deny-by-default permission experience.

You’ll own the frontend end-to-end, shaping how access control feels across the entire Nominal platform and helping customers securely manage their data in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3 to 8 years experience building products for technical users with authentication or access control.
• Experience with TypeScript and modern frontend architecture.
• Familiarity with industry-standard authentication flows and open source authorization systems such as SpiceDB.

Responsibilities

• Design products around access control, building interfaces to assign roles, manage users and groups, and control data access.
• Make permissions visible across the product, ensuring sign-in experiences connect to enterprise identity providers.
• Own ambiguous product problems by partnering with product, design, and engineering to turn ideas into intuitive experiences.
• Build scalable frontend architecture using React, TypeScript, and modern web technologies to support complex workflows.

Skills

Auth experience

TypeScript

Frontend architecture

Product thinking

Systems mindset

Strong communication

Security-minded design

Performance engineering

Backend collaboration

Tools

React

SpiceDB

OpenID / SAML

Job description

Nominal is hiring a Frontend Software Engineer focused on Auth. You will build permission models, control access across the product, and design interfaces for roles, users, and data sources. You’ll collaborate with backend, design, and product teams to ensure a precise, deny-by-default permission experience.

You’ll own the frontend end-to-end, shaping how access control feels across the entire Nominal platform and helping customers securely manage their data in a fast-paced environment.