As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain secure authentication and authorization systems. Your role includes collaborating with engineers, leading design discussions, and providing troubleshooting analysis. You will work within a SaaS environment, implementing features and advocating for improvements, all while supporting large pharmaceutical companies.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Authentication & Authorization team. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll apply your technical and domain expertise to design, implement, and maintain secure authentication and authorization systems; drive design discussions, code reviews, and project-related team meetings; and collaborate with other engineers as you develop solutions for our software as a service (SaaS) products that help scientists save time and increase their experiment quality.
You Will:
- Implement new features and bug fixes within our authentication and authorization services
- Work with your immediate team engineers to do technical investigations, solution designs, code implementation with automated tests, and code reviews
- Lead or consult the authoring of engineering design proposals following our product roadmap at BenchSci
- Leverage a deep understanding of the business context and the team’s goals to unlock independent technical decisions in the face of open-ended requirements
- Proactively identify new opportunities (from both internal and external sources) and advocate for and implement improvements to the current state of projects
- Adhere to and improve our high standards of highly scalable and maintainable code
- Help set a high standard for exceptional engineers who are outcome-oriented and positively contribute to the team's culture
- Be given an unmatched opportunity for accelerated growth and learn from a team of world-class engineers
- Provide troubleshooting analysis and resolution in a timely manner
- Work on projects involving some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world
- Solve difficult problems and bring new perspectives to the team
You Have:
- A degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related field within science
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with authentication solutions and SSO
- High comfort working with a Python back-end and a React/Typescript front-end
- 4+ years of experience working as a professional full-stack developer
Nice-to-Haves, But Not Mandatory Qualifications:
- Experience with Auth0 or similar Identity as a Service (IDaaS) platform
- Experience working with a security-first mindset, including knowledge of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and secure coding practices
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
- Experience with SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect
- Experience with RBAC or ABAC authorization models
Top Skills
Python
React
Typescript
BenchSci Toronto, Ontario, CAN Office
25 York St, Suite 1100, Toronto, Ontario , Canada, M5J 2V5
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