Remote Senior CIAM Engineer: Secure Identity Platform

Affirm; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 169,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

A financial technology company is looking for an experienced backend engineer to join its Information Security team. The role focuses on designing and implementing CIAM systems to enhance customer security and support growth. Candidates should have strong experience in OAuth, backend software engineering, and API design. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $169,000 to $240,000 depending on the location, and includes numerous benefits like health coverage and flexible spending stipends. This is a remote-first role with occasional office requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Strong production experience in Python or a similar backend language.
• Experience with cloud-native development, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core CIAM backend services for customer registration and authentication.
• Implement identity standards in code while ensuring scalability.
• Automate CIAM infrastructure and deployments using Infrastructure as Code.

Skills

CIAM system design

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

SAML

SCIM

Backend software engineering

Python

CI/CD pipelines

API design

Cloud-native development

GitHub workflows

Infrastructure as Code

Security fundamentals

Tools

Terraform

Buildkite

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Job description

A financial technology company is looking for an experienced backend engineer to join its Information Security team. The role focuses on designing and implementing CIAM systems to enhance customer security and support growth. Candidates should have strong experience in OAuth, backend software engineering, and API design. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $169,000 to $240,000 depending on the location, and includes numerous benefits like health coverage and flexible spending stipends. This is a remote-first role with occasional office requirements.