Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform

What you'll do

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for the identity and access platform.
• Manage, coach, and grow a team of backend and frontend engineers through hiring and performance management.
• Lead technical designs, review critical code paths, and debug production issues with the engineering team.
• Build prototypes and participate in incident response to ensure system reliability and security.
• Partner with Security, Product, and Risk teams to integrate identity capabilities across the organization.
• Sequence competing requests into a roadmap while clearly explaining technical trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Run the team’s delivery process, including planning, scoping, migrations, and status reporting.
• Improve engineering practices and operational readiness to provide reliable platform capabilities.

What we're looking for

• At least three years of experience managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and coaching.
• Substantial hands-on experience building identity, authentication, authorization, or access-control systems at scale.
• Proven ability to lead a team through a significant migration, re-platforming, or architectural change.
• Ability to design, prototype, review, and ship production code while staying close to production systems.
• Experience with OAuth 2.x, OIDC, SAML, enterprise SSO, session/token design, MFA, or policy engines.
• Experience with Okta, Auth0, or equivalent customer identity platforms (preferred).
• Experience with AI agent identity, delegated authorization, or non-human identity systems (preferred).
• Experience in fintech, crypto, or regulated environments (nice to have).