Software Engineer, Frontend

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.

• 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.

• 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

Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity and creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold. Our team of more than 1,700 is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Aveiro, Portugal. For more information about our company, visit https://www.squarespace.com/about/careers.

Today, more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customers, but we also work toward the same in our employees. At Squarespace, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplac

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