Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - (JavaScript, NodeJS and React)

Overview

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

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 who 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.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Work Mode: Hybrid (2-3 days Onsite per week)

Note: "This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our Bengaluru, IN office during the first week of employment."

Role Details:

• Lead, design, architect and build high-quality, scalable software by enforcing best practices around software engineering, architecture and processes
• Collaborate with product owners, UX, and engineering teams to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies
• Own your code at all stages of the lifecycle - design, implementation, test automation, delivery, and monitoring - to provide high-quality products to our customers.
• Design and implement new products and features while concurrently addressing existing technical debt. 
• Raise the bar on engineering excellence by improving standard methodologies, producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring
• Conduct code reviews, retrospectives, and other continuous improvement activities
• Collaborate with QA, Technical Support, Documentation, and the UX team
• Be a mentor for colleagues and help promote knowledge-sharing

Experience: 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript language, along with 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 applications/systems built for scale.
• Prior experience with consuming and/or designing REST APIs.
• Excellent grasp of software development and testing principles.
• Excellent communication skills and strong product sense.

Nice to Haves:

• Knowledge of Postgresql
• Familiarity with TypeScript
• Knowledge in Docker & Kubernetes
• Understanding of Cloud Solution Architecture

Education and Training:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, or relevant industry experience

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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