Software Engineer, Identity

Twilio is a company that is revolutionizing communications globally, and they are seeking a Software Engineer to join their Stytch team. This role involves building and scaling identity products, focusing on backend systems for authentication and authorization while collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver impactful features.

Responsibilities:

• Build 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
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to set direction, translate customer needs into product capabilities, 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 design developer experiences that delight our customers
• 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:

• 3+ 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, TypeScript, and DynamoDB
• Experience building developer tools or SDKs
• Experience building and owning products consumed by paying customers