--- title: 'Experienced Software Engineer at Stytch' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/experienced-software-engineer-stytch-san-francisco-djs3kgh4rv84' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Experienced Software Engineer at Stytch - **Company:** Stytch - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $185k–$225k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2025-05-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stytch/fe841bd0-8f8a-48f2-872e-c7e909d39265 ## Job description ## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Stytch is the most powerful identity platform built for developers. With advanced features like device fingerprinting and account takeover-resistant authentication, Stytch provides the infrastructure to make your company’s identity and access management secure, reliable, and scalable. As an Experienced Software Engineer, you'll partner with leadership to ensure that our product experiences are truly best-in-class by architecting solutions across our technology stack, overseeing the design and execution of the team’s projects, and ultimately working on the most critical projects on our product roadmap. This is a hybrid, full-time position based in the SF Bay Area. We aren’t looking for someone to be in-office 5 days per week, but are looking for someone who is excited to collaborate in-person on a weekly basis (3 days per week in-office). ## WHAT EXCITES YOU - A collaborative environment with a tight feedback loop between the work you do and the impact it has on users - Mentoring engineers across Stytch — you have a passion for helping engineers grow and learn and are excited to help grow the future engineering leaders of the company - Designing for the future, and building for the present — you have a vision for the systems you work on, but know how to build incremental milestones, and when to make trade-offs between completeness and utility to get to value fast - You love code — you’re a pro at building roadmaps and design docs, but you don’t like stopping there. You’re incredibly proud of the code you write and review, and like staying close to the systems you own - Putting your stamp on the team — shaping the culture and growing the team through recruiting leadership and senior engineers, and working closely with engineering managers to develop the operations and processes that allow the team to execute at the highest level - Building products that make developers lives easier — both internally and externally. You’re excited to make our systems easy to use and safe for internal developers, as well as the impact your work will have on Stytch’s customers. ## WHAT EXCITES US - 5+ years as a backend or backend-leaning full-stack engineer - Familiarity with frontend (ability to debug on FE as needed, but FE expertise not required) - Familiarity with Go, Node.js, TypeScript, and React ## WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE - Technical — build new, highly reliable services that our customers can depend on in their critical path. Improve our existing systems to be both delightful and safe to build on for Stytch developers, as well as performant, reliable, and secure for our customers. - Ownership — partner with your manager to build the roadmap for the team, partner with product to prioritize the most critical work and projects, and then ship it to production - Leadership — level up the team and the industry by growing the next generation of full-stack engineers at Stytch Our Tech Stack - Go for backend services - Node and Typescript for our web services - Next.js and React/Typescript on the frontend - We run on AWS with Kubernetes for containerization - gRPC and protobufs for internal service communication Expected base salary $185,000-$225,000. The anticipated base salary range is not inclusive of full benefits including equity, health care insurance, time off, paid parental leave, etc. This base salary is accurate based on information at the time of posting. Actual compensation for hired candidates will be determined using a number of factors including experience, skills, and qualifications. We're looking to hire a GREAT team and that means hiring people who are highly empathetic, ambitious, and excited about building the future of user authentication. You should feel empowered to apply for this role even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description (our job descriptions are directional and not perfect recipes for exactly what we need). We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workspace where everyone (regardless of age, education, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or any personal characteristics) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you! Learn more about our team and culture here https://stytch.com/about! Stytch participates in e-verify and will provide the federal government with your form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States. #li-hybrid ## About Stytch ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Stytch provides a powerful, developer-first authentication and identity platform that enables secure, scalable user management with built-in fraud prevention and multi-tenancy. - **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by Twilio, Inc. — operates as a subsidiary) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Julianna Lamb (Co-Founder & CTO), Reed McGinley-Stempel (Co-Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Identity & Access Management (IAM), Authentication Infrastructure, Cybersecurity - **Target customers**: B2B – Developers, engineering teams, and product organizations building web and mobile applications; also serves enterprise customers with complex auth requirements - **Mission or purpose**: “To keep the internet honest” by helping developers protect their applications and make authentication simple and scalable, so teams can stay focused on building differentiated products. ## Products & Services - **[Stytch Authentication Platform]**: A full suite of passwordless solutions (passkeys, magic links, SMS/email OTP) and password-based auth, plus SDKs, pre-built UI components, and headless APIs. Covers email/SMS provider failover for reliable delivery. - **[Enterprise-Grade Features]**: Turnkey multi-tenancy, SAML SSO, SCIM, JIT provisioning, RBAC, and an embeddable admin portal that lets customers self-serve auth settings. - **[Fraud & Abuse Prevention]**: Device fingerprinting, invisible CAPTCHA, intelligent rate limiting, bot detection (99.99% accuracy), and security verdicts to stop account takeover and credential stuffing. - **[AI Agent Identity & Security]**: A dedicated platform for authenticating, authorizing, and managing AI agents, including MCP (Model Context Protocol) support and consent management. Includes Connected Apps for cross-application integrations. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Twilio; exact terms not public) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding raised – **$126.25 million** (Seed $6.2M led by Benchmark, Series A $30M led by Thrive Capital, Series B $90M led by Coatue). Annual Revenue estimated at **$13.2 million** per LinkedIn data. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Benchmark, Thrive Capital, Coatue; Acquired by Twilio (now part of Twilio’s identity offerings). Also acquired Cotter in 2021. - **Growth Signals**: Acquired by Twilio in 2025, expanding reach and resources. Headcount reported as **66 total employees** (Built In) vs. **25 employees** on LinkedIn (likely reflecting core team prior to acquisition — conflicting sources). Active job postings for 9 roles as of mid-2025. Named **Built In 2025 Best Places to Work**. ## Competitive Advantages - **Developer-first philosophy**: APIs, SDKs, and pre-built UI that give developers full control over the login experience without building auth from scratch. - **Comprehensive platform**: Combines authentication, authorization, user management, and fraud prevention in one integration — unlike point solutions. - **Multi-tenancy native**: SCIM, RBAC, and org-level auth settings built-in, making enterprise adoption seamless. - **AI agent readiness**: Early mover in authenticating non-human identities (MCP, agent consent, bot detection). - **Twilio ecosystem integration**: Access to Twilio’s cloud communications infrastructure and customer base. ## Strategic Focus - **Deepen Twilio integration**: Leverage the acquisition to create an “intelligent identity layer for the internet” across Twilio’s platform. - **Expand enterprise features**: Continued investment in SCIM, SSO, admin portals, and enterprise compliance. - **Lead in AI identity**: Build out tools for AI agent authentication, authorization, and fraud protection as AI agents proliferate. - **Scale multi-tenancy**: Make org-level authentication management as simple as possible to reduce friction for customer deployments. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasizes ownership, urgency, and empathetic teamwork. Employees are encouraged to fix problems they see and “act with urgency” while prioritizing impact. - **Hybrid work model**: Flexible remote/on-site policy; offices in San Francisco (HQ) and New York. Employees choose how they work best, with company-sponsored in-person events. - **Perks & recognition**: Named **Built In 2025 Best Places to Work**; high employer rating of **4.8/5.0** (based on 30 reviews) with top marks in Culture (4.9) and Work-Life Balance (4.8). - **Engineering culture**: Product and engineering-driven environment using modern stack (TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js). Emphasis on building reliable services and mentoring. - **Talent pool**: Strong ties to Plaid (founders’ background, many alumni), Stripe, Asana, Google, and Brex. ## Sources 1. [stytch.com/about](https://stytch.com/about) 2. [stytch.com/](https://stytch.com/) 3. [stytch.com/blog/stytch-joins-twilio/](https://stytch.com/blog/stytch-joins-twilio/) 4. 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