Frontend Engineer, Auth & Access Control

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

Benefits offered by this job

100% medical, dental, vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Nominal is hiring a Frontend Software Engineer, Auth in a collaborative, in-office role across multiple major U.S. cities including New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Austin.

You’ll own the auth frontend end to end, turning a relationship-based permission model into intuitive interfaces for admins and users. You’ll partner with backend, design, and product teams to define workflows and make thoughtful technical tradeoffs.

Qualifications

• 3–8 years building products for technical users, with auth/security focus.
• Strong experience with React and TypeScript in modern frontend architectures.
• Experience with industry-standard authentication flows or open source authorization systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the auth frontend largely end to end, shaping how access control feels across the product.
• Collaborate with backend engineers, designers, and product teams to define workflows and tradeoffs.
• Build scalable frontend architecture using React, TypeScript and modern web tech.
• Make permission models legible and secure, ensuring deny-by-default behavior where appropriate.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend architecture

Authorization systems

Backend collaboration

Tools

SpiceDB

AuthZed

OIDC

SAML

Job description

Nominal is hiring a Frontend Software Engineer, Auth in a collaborative, in-office role across multiple major U.S. cities including New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Austin.

You’ll own the auth frontend end to end, turning a relationship-based permission model into intuitive interfaces for admins and users. You’ll partner with backend, design, and product teams to define workflows and make thoughtful technical tradeoffs.