Sr. Software Engineer (Frontend) - Access Management

About the role

Cerby is a company founded in 2020, backed by leading investors, and trusted by enterprises globally. We extend your security perimeter to disconnected applications, automating identity and eliminating manual processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, high-performance software solutions that align with business goals and user needs, leveraging AI-assisted tools and techniques.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineering managers, UX designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality features and functionality.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Help define and promote best practices across the engineering org, including how AI tools can be responsibly and effectively integrated into development workflows.
• Participate in code reviews, share knowledge with team members, and continuously improve development processes.
• Champion new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies that drive innovation and product evolution, while continuously exploring ways to leverage AI in your day-to-day work to boost personal efficiency and empower those around you to do the same.
• Actively contribute to our security-first approach by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and implementing robust solutions, including treating the frontend dependency ecosystem as a security surface: owning PNPM workspace governance, auditing packages for CVEs, enforcing patching SLAs, and managing supply-chain risk across transitive dependencies.
• Remote collaboration: collaborate effectively in a remote-first environment, ensuring seamless communication and teamwork across time zones.
• Cultivate an environment where experimenting with AI is encouraged, learnings are shared openly, and the team grows together.
• Problem-solving: strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.
• Communication skills: ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely both in written and verbal form.
• Team collaboration: collaborate and thrive in agile teams, actively mentoring engineers, sharing knowledge across the org, and leveraging AI to accelerate documentation (runbooks, ADRs, onboarding guides, post-mortems) to free more time for the deep technical conversations that actually transfer expertise.

Experience Qualifications & Required Skills

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on building and scaling SaaS applications.
• Prior experience developing and maintaining Distributed Applications.
• Previous experience mentoring junior developers and conducting security-first code reviews.
• Expertise in core frontend technologies, including the browser API, client-side storage mechanisms (e.g., localStorage, IndexedDB), networking (e.g., fetch, XMLHttpRequest), and performance optimization.
• Experience building scalable, high-performance React applications with Next.js for SSA (Single Page Application).
• Experience with designing, consuming, and optimizing REST APIs with efficient data fetching strategies.
• Experience working with design systems to ensure UI consistency, reusability, and scalability.
• Proficiency in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and utility-first frameworks like TailwindCSS (familiarity with alternative frameworks and their tradeoffs is a plus).
• Cloud platforms (ideally AWS).
• Experience with app security best practices, including designing and building secure applications, implementing protections like Content Security Policy (CSP), and writing unit tests, integrations tests, and component tests to ensure robustness and prevent regressions.
• Writing maintainable code, high quality, scalable, and secure code.
• Proven ability to instrument distributed systems with well-designed telemetry and observability code, including metrics, traces, and log management (prior experience with OpenTelemetry and Datadog a plus).
• Ability to own and drive the software development from design through development, testing, delivery and production release.
• Writes maintainable code, high quality, scalable, and secure code.
• Contribute to build application accessibility by following WCAG guidelines, ARIA roles, and screen reader optimizations to implement inclusive and compliant user experiences.

Nice to have

• Experience working with security compliance frameworks (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPPA, etc.).
• Familiarity with encryption processes and key management is a plus.
• Prior experience in cyber security and/or Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Prior experience in a venture-funded high-growth SaaS startup preferred.