Frontend Engineer

About the Role:

At AuthZed, we’re redefining how modern applications think about access control. As a Frontend Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of building the UI for AuthZed’s commercial products.

This isn’t just another engineering role - it’s a chance to shape the future of our platform and drive innovation in a startup environment where your expertise and creativity will leave a lasting impact.

You'll work alongside a team of passionate engineers, solving challenging problems in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and authorization models, while contributing directly to the success of customers using AuthZed’s products worldwide.

What You'll Do:

• Design, plan and implement highly performant frontend platform features

• Drive best practices in software development, testing, and CI/CD

• Embrace the "operate what you build" philosophy, taking end-to-end ownership of your work - from development and deployment to production operations, and participate in the on-call rotation

• Work closely with other engineers, product, and support teams

• Showcase your work through technical documentation, blogs, and talks, representing AuthZed as a thought leader in the industry

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience building and scaling frontend applications

• Proficiency in modern web frameworks and languages like TypeScript and React

• Comfortable applying functional programming, data structures, and algorithms to improve code performance without sacrificing elegance

• Experience with kubernetes, RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, Observability, CI/CD pipelines

• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• A proven ability to thrive in remote-first, cross-time-zone teams, collaborating effectively to deliver impactful results in a start-up / scale-up environment

Nice to Have:

• Experience with NextJS

• Familiarity with modern authorization systems and access control models