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About the Role
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.
If you are a Frontend Engineer who strives to go beyond what is possible in a web browser, we want to hear from you! You will report to the Engineering Manager in our New York City headquarters.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems across all business units.
- check_circle Build elegant user experiences that enable Squarespace teams to easily add authentication, authorizations and security features to products and services.
- check_circle Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, platform, data, security and legal.
- check_circle Help define frontend architecture, engineering standards, testing strategies, and developer experience.
- check_circle Integrate frontend applications with OAuth, OIDC, session management, and authorization services.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 3+ years of software development experience, with an emphasis on modern frontend technologies (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React) and building delightful user interfaces.
- check Extensive experience developing large-scale application software.
- check Are motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact doing so.
- check Have experience and interest in contributing to services around OAuth, WebAuthN, IdentityProviders, Identity and Access Management.
- check Familiarity with backend development using Node.js, Java, Go, or similar technologies.
- check A strong understanding of, and practical experience with, web application development.
- check A sincere commitment to crafting readable and dependable code.
- check BS or MS in Computer Science or related or equivalent industry experience.
About Squarespace Greenhouse Board
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Squarespace Greenhouse Board refers to the centralized recruitment and talent acquisition infrastructure utilized by Squarespace, a New York City-based technology company specializing in website building and hosting platforms. The board serves as the primary interface for managing the company's global hiring pipeline, candidate tracking, and talent operations, facilitating the recruitment of engineering, product, and design talent to support the company's integrated suite of web publishing tools and e-commerce solutions.