Frontend Engineer, Auth & Access Control

Nominal; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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 building the connected test and operations platform for hardware systems, empowering engineering teams to ingest data, analyze performance, automate tests, and collaborate safely. We’re seeking a Frontend Software Engineer, Auth, to own the permission model and admin interfaces with a focus on precise, deny-by-default access visible across the product.

You’ll work with backend engineers, designers, and product teams to shape workflows, make tradeoffs, and implement scalable frontend

Qualifications

• 3 to 8 years experience building products for technical users where you’ve been involved in authentication, access control, or similar security domains.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, and modern frontend architecture, along with an understanding of how frontend systems interact with backend services.
• Experience building products involving industry-standard authentication flows or working with open source authorization systems such as AuthZed / SpiceDB.
• Strong product instincts. You naturally ask "Why are we building this?" before "How should I implement it?" and aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions when you believe there’s a better solution for users.
• A systems mindset. You enjoy reasoning about data models, user workflows, and how complex systems should behave before jumping into implementation.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical and product tradeoffs clearly across engineering, design, and product teams.
• You’ll think deeply about how users reason about complex systems as you design frontend architectures.
• You’ll balance strong frontend engineering with thoughtful product judgment to handle ambiguous problems.

Responsibilities

• Own the auth frontend largely end to end, shaping how access control feels across the product.
• Define workflows and interaction patterns for a relationship-based permission model to be understandable and hard to misconfigure.
• Build interfaces to assign roles, manage users, revoke API keys, and connect to enterprise identity providers.
• Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to validate workflows and make confident product decisions when requirements are incomplete.

Skills

Authorization Systems

Identity & Authentication

Security-Minded Design

Systems Thinking

Product Thinking

Frontend Architecture

Backend Collaboration

Performance Engineering

Job description

Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform for hardware systems, empowering engineering teams to ingest data, analyze performance, automate tests, and collaborate safely. We’re seeking a Frontend Software Engineer, Auth, to own the permission model and admin interfaces with a focus on precise, deny-by-default access visible across the product.

You’ll work with backend engineers, designers, and product teams to shape workflows, make tradeoffs, and implement scalable frontend