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Software Engineer, Frontend

Squarespace · New York City · On-site

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About the role

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.

What they'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
More about this role

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...

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