DFINITY is hiring a
Senior Identity Engineer

Summary

DFINITY is hiring a full-stack senior identity engineer to extend and document their Internet Identity and Verifiable Credentials platform, design and implement demonstration dApps, and engage with stakeholders. The ideal candidate has experience with web2 authentication standards, verifiable credentials specifications, front-end development, back-end languages, and secure identity product development. Passion for user interface and experience design, user privacy, web application security, and readable code is also required.

Requirements

• Existing web2 AuthN and AuthZ standards, implementations and products (e.g., OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML, WebAuthn, Okta, Auth0, etc)
• Existing specifications and implementations of Verifiable Credentials (e.g., W3C VC Data model)
• Front-end development with or without frameworks—ideally with Typescript. Not afraid of CSS
• Back-end languages such as Rust or other languages used by existing leading identity platforms (We are mainly a Rust company but Java or Go are also acceptable)
• Developing secure identity products in web2 or web3 ecosystems
• Product engineering: we are looking for someone that has built web3 or web2 apps all the way from requirements to deployment, testing and maintenance

Responsibilities

• Extend the existing Internet Identity (II) and Verifiable Credentials (VC) platform with features and tooling
• Write technical documentation for other developers that want to integrate with our II/VC platform
• Design and implement dApps that will showcase features of Internet Identity
• Iterate fast on Proof of Concept implementations
• Engage with stakeholders to obtain basic user requirements and designs and put them into code

Preferred Qualifications

• Passionate about user interface and experience design
• Passionate about user privacy
• Web application security
• Readable and maintainable code