Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Okta Workflows is the foundation for secure integration between cloud services. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to quickly integrate different services, while still enforcing strong security policies. It integrates directly with an organization’s existing services such as directories and identity systems, as well as many other applications.
With Okta Workflows, organizations can automate processes quickly, easily, at a large scale, and low total cost - all within an intuitive, no-code interface. Hundreds of customers, including NTT, MGM, Netflix, and more, trust Okta Workflows to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.
Position Description
We are looking for a full-stack JavaScript engineer that has a deep understanding of both backend service engineering and user interface development. In this role, you will be a vital part of our Workflows Integrated Development Environment team.
You will share our passion and great pride in building elegant solutions and will join an engineering team that prioritizes scalability, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative approach to build high-quality, next-generation enterprise software. You will be part of a full-stack engineering team at Okta that provides opportunities to investigate new technologies and share knowledge, tools, code, and best practices. You will get an opportunity to solve hard problems while partnering with product management and user experience teams examining and refining requirements to deliver an amazing customer experience.
Our team is fast, innovative, and flexible, with an agile release cycle and personal project ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies, and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.
Role Details:
- Design and build high-quality scalable software by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.)
- Work with product owners and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies
- Understand detailed requirements and own your code at all stages of the lifecycle - design, implementation, test automation, delivery, and monitoring - to provide high-quality products to our customers.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of new products and features while also working down our existing technical debt
- Participate in code reviews, retrospectives, and other continuous improvement activities
- Collaborate with QA, Technical Support, Documentation, and UX team
- Be a mentor for colleagues and help promote knowledge-sharing
Experience:
- A deep understanding of the JavaScript language, along with 5+ years of experience building Express and ReactJS applications.
- Experience shipping robust services and user interfaces for production-grade applications in an agile, product-oriented environment.
- Experience working with cloud systems at scale.
- Prior experience with consuming and/or designing REST APIs.
- Excellent grasp of software development and testing principles.
Nice to Haves:
- Knowledge in PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with TypeScript
- Knowledge in Docker & Kubernetes
Education and Training:
- Bachelors in Computer Science, or relevant industry experience
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