Software Engineer

Squarespace is looking for a frontend-focused engineer who enjoys owning features end-to-end. While your expertise is building exceptional user experiences, you're comfortable working across the stack to deliver secure, scalable identity solutions.

You will join the Identity & Access Management (IAM) team, where we architect the mission-critical authentication, authorization, and account security frameworks that safeguard millions of users worldwide. We own the systems powering sign-in, sign-up, account recovery, multi-factor authentication, passkeys, OAuth, and identity verification. Our mission is to make security seamless - creating intuitive user experiences while building highly reliable and secure backend systems.

If you are a Frontend Engineer who strives to go beyond what is possible in a web browser, we want to hear from you! You will report to the Engineering Manager in our New York City headquarters.

You'll Get To...

• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems across all business units.
• Build elegant user experiences that enable Squarespace teams to easily add authentication, authorizations and security features to products and services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, platform, data, security and legal.
• Help define frontend architecture, engineering standards, testing strategies, and developer experience.
• Integrate frontend applications with OAuth, OIDC, session management, and authorization services.

Who We're Looking For

• 3+ years of software development experience, with an emphasis on modern frontend technologies (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React) and building delightful user interfaces.
• Extensive experience developing large-scale application software
• Are motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact doing so.
• Have experience and interest in contributing to services around OAuth, WebAuthN, IdentityProviders, Identity and Access Management
• Familiarity with backend development using Node.js, Java, Go, or similar technologies.
• A strong understanding of, and practical experience with, web application development
• A sincere commitment to crafting readable and dependable code
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related or equivalent industry experience
• 3+ years of experience

Benefits & Perks

• A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums including medical, dental, and vision