Senior Software Engineer – Frontend, Access Management

Cerby

Senior Software Engineer on Cerby's Access Management team focusing on building and scaling SaaS applications. Collaborating across teams while implementing a security-first engineering culture.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptNext.jsReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build scalable, high-performance software solutions that align with business goals and user needs, leveraging AI-assisted tools and techniques as part of your engineering practice.
Work 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.
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.
Actively contribute to our security-first approach by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and implementing robust solutions.
Collaborate effectively in a remote-first environment, ensuring seamless communication and teamwork across time zones.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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: Expertise with React, Next.js, TypeScript and utility-first frameworks like TailwindCSS (familiarity with alternative frameworks and their tradeoffs is a plus).
Cloud platforms (ideally AWS).
Applying deep knowledge of frontend security best practices to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities such as XSS, CSRF, and CORS, implementing protections like Content Security Policy (CSP) to safeguard users and data.
Designing responsive, maintainable, and accessible UI components.
Writing unit tests, integrations tests, and component tests to ensure robustness and prevent regressions.
Building and maintaining component libraries that align with brand guidelines and accessibility standards.
Software engineering practices such as Agile and Scrum, CI/CD, Collective Code Ownership.
Architecting and designing distributed, fault-tolerant, high-availability, and resilient systems.
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).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

SaaS Application DevelopmentREST API Design and OptimizationPerformance OptimizationUnit TestingIntegration TestingComponent TestingTelemetry and ObservabilityAgile MethodologiesCI/CD PracticesComponent Library Development

Soft Skills

CollaborationMentoringCommunication