Senior Software Engineer Front End Engineering

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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.

The Okta platform provides directory services, integrations with Active Directory (AD), Azure AD, and LDAP, for single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, lifecycle management, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.

We are looking for a front-end UI engineer to join our high caliber Meta-Directory Group that encompasses Universal Directory, Directories & Azure Integrations. Your role will be to help us provide a world class UI experience to our customers. Okta's Meta-Directory group is focusing on identity stores and managing the lifecycle. Our platform manages users, groups and memberships, with stringent performance, reliability and scalability requirements. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain our platform for scale. The ideal candidate is someone who has experience building front-end UI experiences to manage and configure identity systems, and deploy reliable and performant product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure.

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Work with product & design teams to deliver world-class user experiences.
• Delight our customers by providing world class UX using our React-based design system.
• Understand our Meta-Directory codebase and development process: Jira, Technical Designs, Code Review, Testing, and Deployment.
• Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
• Provide support and handle incoming bugs and customer reported issues
• Conduct quality code reviews and automated testing
• Work with QA team to outline and implement comprehensive test coverage for broad features
• As part of the ongoing development in the team, provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers
• Interface with cross-functional teams (Architects, QA, Product, Technical Support, Documentation, and backend teams) to develop connectors to on-prem and cloud apps

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• 5+ years of software development experience building highly-reliable, mission- critical software
• Strong knowledge of Javascript (ES6), CSS, CSS3, SASS, HTML5, Typescript
• Solid experience in one of the major frameworks (Backbone, Angular, ReactJS etc), preferably with experience of ReactJS and Redux
• Experience with one or more of the following Directory services: Active Directory, LDAP
• Experience with RESTful APIs and gRPC
• Experience working with a system of scale.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading
• Experience in TDD and working in agile sprints
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, etc
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot is huge plus

Education and Training:

• B.S. Computer Science or related field

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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