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Okta

Secures digital identities for people and software

Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Builder Platform

Full-Stack EngineeringPosted on Nov 13
Full-timeToronto, ON, Canada

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of experience building modern web applications in a full-stack environment.
  • Deep expertise in TypeScript, ReactJS, and Node.js, using Express or similar frameworks.
  • Experience designing APIs, working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, and building services in a distributed, cloud-based architecture.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity or experience with access control models such as role-based access control (RBAC), or complex application state and flow management.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant industry experience.
  • Ability to collaborate closely with architects to make technical tradeoffs and drive alignment across teams.
  • Ability to meet high engineering standards for testing, monitoring, documentation, and scalability.
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to lead technical discussions and build consensus across functions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain end-to-end features using modern JavaScript and cloud-native technologies, including React, Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
  • Drive technical design for key initiatives, ensuring quality, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Build reusable and performant user-interface components and services for the design-time integrated development environment (IDE), flow management, and role-based access control (RBAC).
  • Own services throughout their lifecycle, including implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and incident response.
  • Work with Product, Design, and Architecture to define feature requirements and approaches, ensuring solutions are user-friendly and technically sound.
  • Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to optimize system performance and reliability.
  • Mentor and support engineers across the team, fostering quality, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  • Contribute to cross-functional planning, architectural reviews, and team-wide engineering practices.

Desired Qualifications

  • Exposure to low-code or no-code tools, workflow engines, visual development platforms, or web-based integrated development environments (IDEs).
  • Interest in AI-assisted developer tooling or automation.

About the Company

Okta

Secures digital identities for people and software

Okta builds cloud identity software that controls how employees, customers, and automated systems access applications and company resources. Its single sign-on product lets people use one login across their work tools, while passwordless sign-in and additional identity checks protect accounts from stolen credentials. Administrators use its directory, access policies, and lifecycle tools to grant permissions when someone joins an organization and remove them when they leave. Organizations pay subscriptions based on the products they use and the identities they manage, with support included. Okta was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2009

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