Frontend Engineer

We’re pioneering open-source authorization solutions for scaling businesses tackling complex end-user permissions in zero-trust architectures. Our focus is on providing SpiceDB—the most mature open-source permissions database inspired by Google’s Zanzibar system—and building managed services that enable planet-scale production authorization services. Our strategic approach to capital-raising has empowered us to efficiently utilize our $3.9M seed fund and recently secure a $12M Series A. This funding has allowed us to further develop SpiceDB, now the open-source standard in authorization database technology, fortify our reputation as authorization experts, accelerate our open-source community growth, and scale revenue with robust enterprise products. AuthZed is a fully remote company with employees across the US and Europe. We’re a hardworking group with a software-driven culture; even our sales team understands and loves our technology! We bring integrity to all our interactions, fostering confidence in decision making - trusting and respecting each voice on our team, every day. Company Values Agency Everyone should have the capability, freedom, and confidence to bring about changes to our business and product. Organizational processes exist to clearly define our goals, but not restrict how progress is made. Collaboration Success is defined in various dimensions and no single person can be an expert in all of them. Without valuing the opinions of others, finding compromises, and sharing mutual trust and respect, you cannot arrive at the best possible solution. Open-mindness Without asking questions, testing assumptions, and questioning our pre-existing biases we risk operating within an echo-chamber. We celebrate the representation of diverse perspectives and backgrounds as a catalyst for creating an inclusive work environment that everyone can appreciate. Agency Everyone should have the capability, freedom, and confidence to bring about changes to our business and product. Organizational processes exist to clearly define our goals, but not restrict how progress is made. Everyone should have the capability, freedom, and confidence to bring about changes to our business and product. Organizational processes exist to clearly define our goals, but not restrict how progress is made. Collaboration Success is defined in various dimensions and no single person can be an expert in all of them. Without valuing the opinions of others, finding compromises, and sharing mutual trust and respect, you cannot arrive at the best possible solution. Success is defined in various dimensions and no single person can be an expert in all of them. Without valuing the opinions of others, finding compromises, and sharing mutual trust and respect, you cannot arrive at the best possible solution. Open-mindness Without asking questions, testing assumptions, and questioning our pre-existing biases we risk operating within an echo-chamber. We celebrate the representation of diverse perspectives and backgrounds as a catalyst for creating an inclusive work environment that everyone can appreciate. Without asking questions, testing assumptions, and questioning our pre-existing biases we risk operating within an echo-chamber. We celebrate the representation of diverse perspectives and backgrounds as a catalyst for creating an inclusive work environment that everyone can appreciate. About the Role: At AuthZed, we’re redefining how modern applications think about access control. As a Frontend Engineer , you'll be at the forefront of building the UI for AuthZed’s commercial products. This isn’t just another engineering role - it’s a chance to shape the future of our platform and drive innovation in a startup environment where your expertise and creativity will leave a lasting impact. You'll work alongside a team of passionate engineers, solving challenging problems in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and authorization models, while contributing directly to the success of customers using AuthZed’s products worldwide. What You'll Do: Design, plan and implement highly performant frontend platform features Drive best practices in software development, testing, and CI/CD Embrace the " operate what you build" philosophy, taking end-to-end ownership of your work - from development and deployment to production operations, and participate in the on-call rotation Work closely with other engineers, product, and support teams Showcase your work through technical documentation, blogs, and talks, representing AuthZed as a thought leader in the industry Design, plan and implement highly performant frontend platform features Drive best practices in software development, testing, and CI/CD Embrace the " operate what you build" philosophy, taking end-to-end ownership of your work - from development and deployment to production operations, and participate in the on-call rotation Work closely with other engineers, product, and support teams Showcase your work through technical documentation, blogs, and talks, representing AuthZed as a thought leader in the industry What You Bring: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience 5+ years of experience building and scaling frontend applications Proficiency in modern web frameworks and languages like TypeScript and React Comfortable applying functional programming, data structures, and algorithms to improve code performance without sacrificing elegance Experience with kubernetes, RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, Observability, CI/CD pipelines Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders A proven ability to thrive in remote-first, cross-time-zone teams, collaborating effectively to deliver impactful results in a start-up / scale-up environment Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience 5+ years of experience building and scaling frontend applications Proficiency in modern web frameworks and languages like TypeScript and React Comfortable applying functional programming, data structures, and algorithms to improve code performance without sacrificing elegance Experience with kubernetes, RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, Observability, CI/CD pipelines Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders A proven ability to thrive in remote-first, cross-time-zone teams, collaborating effectively to deliver impactful results in a start-up / scale-up environment Nice to Have: Experience with NextJS Familiarity with modern authorization systems and access control models Experience with NextJS Familiarity with modern authorization systems and access control models Given our background, we build upon a foundation of using open source, cloud-native solutions to deliver our products. We've given some webinars discussing parts of our stack: Building a managed database service with Kubernetes Operators Running Low-latency Workloads on Kubernetes Building a managed database service with Kubernetes Operators Running Low-latency Workloads on Kubernetes Here are some keywords: Go TypeScript Kubernetes Kubernetes Operators NextJS Pulumi CockroachDB Cloud Spanner PostgreSQL Prometheus Thanos ArgoCD Go TypeScript Kubernetes Kubernetes Operators NextJS Pulumi CockroachDB Cloud Spanner PostgreSQL Prometheus Thanos ArgoCD