We are looking for an experienced front end software engineer to join the federated identity team.  The team is responsible for building Okta products and creating a customizable platform that allows Okta’s customers to configure and brand our out-of-the-box product and make it their own. The team designs and implements this foundational layer on industry standard protocols such as OAuth, OpenID Connect and SAML.  We are looking for smart, innovative and passionate engineers to join the team and lead the technical path of the future of Identity Management in the era of cloud.

 

You will share our passion and great pride in elegant solutions and will join an engineering team that strongly believes in designing for scale, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative process to build high-quality next generation enterprise software. Identity is deeply important and providing a platform for customers to secure their applications is one of your passions.

 

 

 

Okta is an enterprise grade identity management service, built from the ground up in the cloud and delivered with an unwavering focus on customer success. With Okta IT can manage access across any application, person or device.  Whether the people are employees, partners or customers or the applications are in the cloud, on premises or on a mobile device, Okta helps IT become more secure, make people more productive, and maintain compliance.   

 

The Okta service provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, 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.

 

 

•    Analyze/refine requirements with UX, UI teams for common reusable components, patterns and styles that need to be developed in the framework

•    Develop reusable components to enable other teams to easily implement UIs with rich and consistent look and feel

•    Work with management and architects to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies

•    Participate in thoughtful code reviews

 

 

•    3+ years experience with one of the major JavaScript MVC frameworks (Backbone, Angular, React, etc.), along with a deep understanding of JS.

•    Experience building B2B web applications

•    Strong experience with cross browser compatibility and optimization techniques

•    Strong understanding of debugging scalable, high performance web applications built with reusability and componentization in mind

•    Understanding of web security attacks and prevention

•    Prior experience with or understanding REST (or designing API’s) highly desirable

•    Experience with any of the following is a plus: network security, encryption, authentication and authorization, OAuth, OpenID connect, SAML