# Sr Software Engineer, Applications at Basis

- Company: Basis
- What the company does: Basis builds AI agents that do real accounting work end-to-end. Top accounting firms use Basis across CAS, Tax, and Audit to turn their doers into reviewers and expand revenue capacity. Backed by Accel and Khosla.
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $119K to $165K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Apply by: 2026-11-29
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/basis/f50da94e-d3fb-4d1b-970e-d934cf29c6cf?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/basis-sr-software-engineer-applications/

## About the role

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## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Deep, hands-on knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID
- Experience with ReBAC systems (OpenFGA, Zanzibar, SpiceDB): modeling schemas, writing and testing tuple-based policies, and reasoning about permission evaluation performance
- Experience with Auth0 or a comparable identity provider (Okta, Azure AD, Keycloak)
- Strong backend skills in Java, Ruby, or Python, with frameworks such as Spring Boot, Rails, or Django
- Regular use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) for code generation, debugging, and exploring unfamiliar code, and the judgment to own and vet what they produce

Tags: Software Engineering, Applications

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