Engineering Manager

Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) is an easy to implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform. Basically, we make everyone’s login box awesome. If you are a problem solver who wants to make this login experience even better, then look no further - Okta CIC IAM Authentication domain is where you want to be. Our domain’s mission is to provide a simple, secure, standards-compliant, and delightful authentication experience for both end users and developers. We work with NodeJS, React, Postgres/MongoDB databases, and our services run on both AWS and Azure. Our technology radar continues to try, adopt, and re-visit various technologies and is a proponent of using the right tools for the job.

You will:

• Lead and grow a healthy, inclusive, collaborative team rooted in the opportunities they create for customers.
• Ensure each team member deepens their skills through coaching, training, and mentoring.
• Work with product and design to build the roadmap for Embedded Login at Okta CIC. This involves talking to engineers, other teams, and various stakeholders within the company.
• Review your team’s work to meet high-performance standards.
• As required, work on relevant stories, tasks, and bugs from your team’s backlog.
• Tie every piece of work back to the mission of making the internet safer and the business value of making it easier for companies to solve Auth.
• Have the opportunity to gain a great understanding and context about how Okta CIC works and learn more about security protocols and how to build reliable, highly available systems.

You are a good fit if you:

• Have experience leading a backend API development team.
• Skilled at coaching teammates in all phases of their careers.
• Experience providing focus to teams to enable them to achieve their goals.
• Hands-on who can help a team evaluate trade-offs during various SDLC phases.
• Enjoy working in an iterative development environment.
• Can add value to a conversation even when you are not familiar with the entire context.
• Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results.
• Like to lead by example.
• Are a great communicator and communication facilitator.

Bonus points if you:

• Experience working on cloud-native technologies with AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing teams developing features that scale.
• Experience with native app development, either managing or developing.

 

 

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