Key skills
GoAgenticKubernetesDynamoDBRESTfulLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Twilio is a company that shapes the future of communications by providing innovative solutions to businesses and empowering developers worldwide. They are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help scale Stytch’s identity platform, focusing on building backend systems for secure authentication and authorization. The role involves collaboration with leadership to deliver impactful features and improve the platform for Twilio’s extensive customer base.
Responsibilities:
- Build and own backend product capabilities for Stytch’s identity platform on Twilio—shipping new API surfaces and core authentication flows, including agentic and non-human identity use cases
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable distributed services, optimizing for security, latency, and developer experience
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to set direction, translate customer needs into technical plans, and deliver high-impact roadmap features
- Collaborate across Twilio and Stytch teams to align on architecture, integrate platform capabilities, and unblock cross-team initiatives
- Operate with deep technical ownership: author design docs, drive key technical decisions, review code, and stay close to the systems you ship
- Build in ambiguity—break down complex problems, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and adopt new technologies or strategies when they improve outcomes
- Improve production quality and resilience through strong observability, incident response and remediation
- Mentor and support other engineers through pairing, feedback, and knowledge-sharing, helping raise the team’s technical bar and culture
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience in designing, building and operating high-scale, mission critical cloud based production systems
- Familiarity with a production-grade code base in a modern programming language, applying best practice coding standards and writing high quality code
- Extensive experience with RESTful API design and development
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related industry experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Schedule: ability to work non-standard, on-call rotation weekend and holiday hours
- Familiarity with Go, Kubernetes, and DynamoDB
- Experience building developer tools and/or internal platforms that improve velocity and reliability
- Experience designing and building highly reliable back end systems
- Builder at heart. Through a hobby or your profession, you are passionate about being hands on and seeing your work come to life