Jobs in Lehi, UT

About the role

As a Sr Software Engineer , you will lead and oversee the software engineering function for Pattern’s central administrative, authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure. In this role, you will serve as a key technical leader for our mission-critical identity and access platform, partnering with other engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure its success. Because this core system underpins all of Pattern's operations, you will partner closely with a wide variety of cross-functional teams to field, prioritize, and build a high volume of feature requests while ensuring the ongoing maintenance, stability, and high performance of existing applications. What is a day in the life of a Sr Software Engineer (IAM)? What will I need to thrive in this role?

What you'll bring

• 3+ years of back-end software engineering experience focused on core security, identity, or platform systems.
• Proven experience building and maintaining central Authentication and Authorization systems.
• Direct experience with RBAC/ABAC frameworks and security protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT).
• Strong capability to manage competing feature requests from multiple internal teams while maintaining legacy codebases.
• Solid background with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and REST/gRPC APIs.
• What does high performance look like?
• You are seen and trusted as a primary subject matter expert and partner for central Auth/Authz and admin tooling across all of Pattern.
• You strike an effective balance between rapidly delivering requested features for partner teams and systematically maintaining/refactoring existing applications to ensure system stability and reliability while preventing technical debt.
• You communicate proactively with cross-functional stakeholders, setting realistic timelines and clear integration pathways for their feature requests.
• You ensure our central Auth system is fault-tolerant, sub-millisecond in performance, and seamlessly adopted by all internal applications and external platforms.
• You effectively delegate and monitor repeatable, task-focused feature and maintenance work with junior engineers, optimizing your time across both strategy and execution.
• What is the team like?

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