Senior CIAM Engineer - Remote Backend & Security

Affirm; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 169,000 - 219,000; 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 services company is seeking a backend engineer specializing in CIAM (Customer Identity and Access Management) systems. The role involves designing and implementing secure authentication and account flows using standards like OAuth 2.0 and building backend services in Python. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in backend software engineering and familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS. The company offers a remote-first environment with competitive pay and extensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience in programming languages like Python or similar.
• Experience extending and integrating CIAM platforms using custom code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core CIAM backend services.
• Implement and extend identity standards like OAuth 2.0 in code.
• Monitor and optimize CIAM services for performance and security.

Skills

Designing and implementing CIAM systems

Backend software engineering

Production experience in Python

Designing APIs

Building CI/CD pipelines

Cloud-native development, AWS

Integrating CIAM platforms

Security fundamentals

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Buildkite

Job description

A financial services company is seeking a backend engineer specializing in CIAM (Customer Identity and Access Management) systems. The role involves designing and implementing secure authentication and account flows using standards like OAuth 2.0 and building backend services in Python. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in backend software engineering and familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS. The company offers a remote-first environment with competitive pay and extensive benefits.