Full-Time

Experienced Software Engineer

Stytch

Stytch

11-50 employees

API-driven authentication and security platform

Compensation Overview

$185k - $225k/yr

+ Equity

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

Three days in-office per week required.

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
gRPC
Kubernetes
React.js
Node.js
TypeScript
AWS
Go
Next.js

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Requirements
  • At least 5 years of experience as a backend or backend-leaning full-stack engineer.
  • Familiarity with frontend development, including the ability to debug frontend issues as needed.
  • Familiarity with Go, Node.js, TypeScript, and React.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with leadership to architect solutions across the technology stack.
  • Oversee the design and execution of the team's projects.
  • Mentor engineers across the company and help engineers grow and learn.
  • Build roadmaps and design documents, write and review code, and stay close to owned systems.
  • Shape team culture and grow the team through recruiting leadership and senior engineers.
  • Work with engineering managers to develop team operations and processes.
  • Build reliable services and improve existing systems for usability, performance, reliability, and security.
  • Partner with the manager to build the team roadmap and partner with product to prioritize critical work and projects before shipping them to production.
  • Use Go for backend services; Node.js and TypeScript for web services; Next.js and React with TypeScript on the frontend; AWS and Kubernetes for infrastructure and containerization; and gRPC and Protocol Buffers for internal service communication.

Stytch provides a developer-focused identity platform for authentication and security. It offers features like Single Sign-On (SSO), device fingerprinting, and bot protection, delivered via APIs plus frontend and mobile SDKs to build custom sign-in flows. The API-first approach and SDKs let teams tailor end-to-end authentication across web and mobile apps, regardless of tech stack. Stytch aims to be scalable and reliable with multi-region infrastructure and a 99.999% uptime SLA, serving startups to large enterprises.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$126M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2020

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Connected Apps became generally available in 2025 and targets AI-agent workflows in 2026.
  • Stytch added OAuth, OIDC, MCP, token revocation, and org-wide allowlists in 2026.
  • Twilio now funds Stytch, reducing standalone capital risk after the November 2025 acquisition.

What critics are saying

  • Stytch had 33 employees on April 22, 2026, leaving limited execution capacity.
  • Twilio can fold Stytch into Verify, erasing standalone pricing, roadmap, and brand by 2027.
  • Auth0, Clerk, and Okta attack Stytch’s core developer wedge with broader enterprise features.

What makes Stytch unique

  • Twilio completed Stytch acquisition on November 14, 2025, giving it Twilio distribution and data.
  • Stytch’s 2026 Connected Apps turns applications into OAuth and OIDC authorization servers.
  • Stytch remains developer-first: APIs, SDKs, and prebuilt UI minimize authentication integration work.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Hybrid Work Options

Paid Parental Leave

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-6%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

0%
Twilio
Oct 31st, 2025
Twilio to Acquire Identity Platform for AI Agents, Stytch

Twilio announced its intent to acquire Stytch, an identity platform for AI agents that’s built for developers.

Market News 24
Apr 7th, 2025
Cloudflare Launches Remote MCP Server to Simplify AI Agent Development and Reduce Barriers for Developers

In addition to the MCP server, Cloudflare has partnered with companies such as Auto0, Stytch, and WorkOS.

VentureBeat
Feb 19th, 2025
A Stytch In Time: Connected Apps Untangles Authorization Tie-Ups For Ai Agents

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. AI agents are set to change ID authorization: As they integrate behind the scenes, they will need to move seamlessly between different apps on our behalf, and not get continually halted by login screens, lest they become cumbersome. “Every app, or almost every app, will need to function as its own identity provider in the future,” Reed McGinley-Stempel, CEO of authorization platform Stytch, told VentureBeat. This requires a different approach to permissioning, one that supports sophisticated AI workflows while also protecting sensitive proprietary and personal data. Stytch’s new Connected Apps is aimed at this: The platform allows any SaaS company to become its own identity provider (IdP), ultimately enabling AI agents and third-party apps to securely authenticate, access data and take action on behalf of users.“AI agents are obviously having a moment,” said McGinley-Stempel. “You can delegate a task to an agent, and it can allow those other apps that are connected to this core customer or this primary identity provider to have read and write functionality.” Supporting whole-app ecosystemsSince its founding four and a half years ago, Stytch’s main role has been to effectively power “identity handshakes”: The platform enables the “client” side of the handshake with an external identity provider (such as Google or Microsoft) to verify user identity, share information like emails and names and allow for a simple login. Now with Connected Apps, Stytch customers can make the data within their apps accessible to other apps (both from a read and a write perspective). Third-party apps and agents can verify user identity, receive information and act on behalf of users in a permissioned way (AI agents), and login states can be shared between apps and systems. As McGinley-Stempel put it: “You can support an app ecosystem.” He pointed to the rise of “unsanctioned agentic access” — for instance, he personally has connected OpenAI Operator to his Twitter and LinkedIn profiles to occasionally do certain things on his behalf. “One of the problems with that is from a security and privacy and consent management level, it’s giving complete, broad-range access to these agents,” he conceded. With Connected Apps, the goal is to be more “programmatically secure” so that admins have a control pane and can properly manage permissions and refresh or revoke tokens as needed, he explained. “Because even though I want that productivity gain, I also need the ability to revoke access if I don’t think a certain app should be connected,” said McGinley-Stempel

ADTmag
Sep 20th, 2024
Stytch Unveils Advanced Authentication Tech with Enhanced Fraud and Bot Protection for Developers

Identity platform provider Stytch has launched new device fingerprinting capabilities designed to provide enhanced fraud and bot protection for developers.

VMblog
Dec 5th, 2023
Stytch Unveils the Most Complete Developer Toolkit for Passkeys: @VMblog

Improve end user experience in VDI, DaaS and physical endpoint environments Stytch Unveils the Most Complete Developer Toolkit for Passkeys Stytch announced the general availability of its Passkeys offering, giving developers the easiest way to build, customize and maintain passkey-based authentication in their applications.