Senior Backend Identity Engineer

Summary

Join League's Identity Engineering Team as a Senior Software Engineer, Backend! You will design, develop, and scale critical identity services and middleware powering League's platform. Lead complex projects from discovery to delivery, utilizing Go, Node.js, MongoDB, Auth0, Github, and GCP. Collaborate with a small team, contribute to the developer program, and mentor junior engineers. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of backend development experience and a passion for delivering value to customers. League offers comprehensive benefits, growth opportunities, equity participation, and wellness days.

Requirements

• Have a minimum of 5 years backend development experience
• Enjoy delivering value to customers
• Have experience building scalable, fault-tolerant cloud services
• Know how to write high-quality, testable code, and understand the tradeoffs between expediency and maintainability
• Understand how the web works and what a good API looks like
• When things break, you’re eager and able to help fix things

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend services, and data storage solutions, ensuring adherence to engineering best practices
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, proactively identifying root causes
• Actively participate in technical design and planning discussions, contributing to system design and documentation (including ADRs)
• Uphold code quality standards through code reviews, bug fixes, automated tests, and performance monitoring
• Lead complex projects from discovery to delivery phases, including requirement gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment
• Mentor junior engineers, fostering their growth and development
• Participate in our On-Call rotation
• Compliance with Information Security Policies
• Compliance with League’s secure coding practice
• Responsibility and accountability for executing League's policies and procedures
• Notification of HR, Legal, Compliance & Security of any incidents, breaches or policy violations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining environments deployed through infrastructure-as-code pipelines
• An understanding of basic cryptographic principles and systems
• Strong experience or knowledge about OAuth, OpenID Connect or FIDO standards
• Experience working with Golang, Google Cloud Platform or Node.js

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits: Generous health coverage for you and your family
• Growth Opportunities: Mentorship and a learning and development budget to support your professional growth
• Equity Participation: Share in the success of a high-growth company
• Wellness days: Take time off to reset and recharge