SeniorSoftwareEngineer-IdentityCore

Security should be invisible to users but rock-solid underneath, Deliver robust and scalable identity, authentication, and user management solutions, Ensure security and ease of integration for internal teams and external partners, Serve as the cornerstone of secure and seamless user experiences, Prioritize autonomy and pragmatism, Solve complex problems without unnecessary friction, Engineering excellence measured by reliability and simplicity, Own Perk’s identity and authentication domain, Have a genuine say in what gets built, Autonomy to make it happen, Work closely with platform and security teams, Set the standard for how identity is handled, Contribute to the identity and security roadmap, Define how Perk’s identity platform should evolve, Support SSO, enterprise provisioning, and developer-facing integrations at scale, Write design documents for significant changes to auth systems, Balance security rigour with developer experience, Guardian of technical quality, Spot where we need to harden, modernise or simplify identity stack, Set consistent patterns for how identity is handled, Contribute to engineering guilds, Work with architects on solution discovery, Mentor, Give thoughtful code review feedback, Model what great security-first engineering looks like, Help the team grow its depth in auth protocols, threat modelling and system design, Translates complex business goals into technical, De-risks ambiguous projects through spikes and prototyping, Architects scalable, evolvable identity systems, Think carefully about performance, failure isolation, security boundaries and long-term maintainability, Oversees operational security including secrets hygiene, dependency risk and threat modelling, Treats security as a first-class engineering concern, Understands that the identity layer is a platform consumed by other engineers, Designs for developer experience, clear abstractions and well-documented APIs, Engineers sophisticated backend solutions, API design, Token lifecycle management, Caching strategies, Complex data models for identity at scale, Defines and upholds engineering excellence, CI/CD, Testing strategies (including security testing), Coding standards, Leads observability and on-call practices for security-critical, Defines SLOs, Manages incident response, Conducts blameless post-mortems, Levels up the engineering organisation, Active mentorship, Design reviews, Influencing the roadmap with technical insight, Experience with or interest in modern AI-augmented workflows and agentic coding