Software Engineer, Frontend

Webhosting; New York (NY); On-site; USD 111,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental

Vision coverage

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Squarespace is seeking a frontend-focused engineer to own features end-to-end, delivering secure, scalable identity solutions across authentication, authorization, and account security.

You will join the Identity & Access Management team, shaping frontend architecture, standards, and developer experience while integrating OAuth, OIDC, and session management across services.

Responsibilities

• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems across all business units.
• Build elegant user experiences that enable Squarespace teams to easily add authentication, authorizations and security features to products and services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, platform, data, security and legal.
• Help define frontend architecture, engineering standards, testing strategies, and developer experience.
• Integrate frontend applications with OAuth, OIDC, session management, and authorization services.

Job description

Job Description

Squarespace is looking for a frontend-focused engineer who enjoys owning features end-to-end. While your expertise is building exceptional user experiences, you’re comfortable working across the stack to deliver secure, scalable identity solutions.

You will join the Identity & Access Management (IAM) team, where we architect the mission-critical authentication, authorization, and account security frameworks that safeguard millions of users worldwide. We own the systems powering sign-in, sign-up, account recovery, multi-factor authentication, passkeys, OAuth, and identity verification. Our mission is to make security seamless – creating intuitive user experiences while building highly reliable and secure backend systems.

You’ll Get To…

• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems across all business units.
• Build elegant user experiences that enable Squarespace teams to easily add authentication, authorizations and security features to products and services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, platform, data, security and legal.
• Help define frontend architecture, engineering standards, testing strategies, and developer experience.
• Integrate frontend applications with OAuth, OIDC, session management, and authorization services.
• A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums including medical, dental, and vision
• Supplemental Life and Disability Insurance plans
• Fertility and adoption benefits
• Headspace mindfulness app subscription
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement benefits with employer match
• Flexible paid time off
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and family care leave
• Employee donation match to community organizations
• 7 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Dog-friendly workplace
• Free lunch and snacks
• Private rooftop
• Hack week twice per year

Cash Compensation Range: $110,500 – $178,250 USD

The base salary for this position will vary based on job-related criteria including relevant skills, experience, and location, among other factors.

In addition to the cash compensation above (which includes base salary and, where applicable for eligible roles, may include overtime pay), Squarespace employees are eligible to be granted an option to purchase our common stock. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive structure in addition to base salary.

About Squarespace

Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity and creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold. Our team of more than 1,700 is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Aveiro, Portugal. For more information about our company, visit https://www.squarespace.com/about/careers .

Our Commitment

Today, more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customers, but we also work toward the same in our employees. At Squarespace, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplac

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