Senior Staff Software Engineer

Who is Recruiting from Scratch : Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Identity and Access Management Location - United States / Canada (Remote) - Remote role for candidates authorized to work in the United States or Canada. Compensation - $210,000 – $250,000 Base + Competitive Equity Visa - No Visa Sponsorship Company Stage - Growth Stage – Tens of Millions in Revenue Industry - Restaurant Technology, SaaS, Fintech, Identity & Access Management, Cloud Software About the Company Our client is building an AI-native technology platform designed to help independent restaurants operate and grow their businesses through a unified software platform. The platform replaces fragmented restaurant technology tools with a connected system covering critical business operations, helping restaurant owners manage their businesses more efficiently. The company has processed hundreds of millions of dollars in customer orders and has generated significant savings for restaurant operators by reducing fees and simplifying their technology stack. Backed by top-tier investors and a team of experienced engineers from leading technology companies, the company is scaling rapidly while expanding its product and infrastructure capabilities. As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Identity and Access Management, you'll work on the foundational identity platform responsible for secure access across the company's entire product ecosystem. This is an opportunity to join a high-trust engineering team and own critical authentication, authorization, permissions, and security infrastructure used across the platform. What You'll Do Design, build, and improve authentication and authorization systems powering the company's product ecosystem Own critical identity infrastructure across login, sessions, token management, and account security Build and maintain role-based access control and permission systems Develop scalable authorization services and access enforcement systems Build secure service-to-service authentication infrastructure Design and maintain APIs and infrastructure consumed by product and engineering teams Improve reliability and observability across authentication and authorization services Build alerting, dashboards, monitoring, and operational runbooks for critical identity systems Identify security risks and improve authentication and authorization controls Design identity systems with security, reliability, and scalability as core requirements Build distributed systems supporting high-volume authentication and authorization workloads Collaborate with product, platform, infrastructure, and security engineers Partner with product and design teams to build secure and intuitive access experiences Establish engineering standards and best practices around identity and access management Help product teams implement secure access patterns and authorization standards Investigate and resolve complex production issues across identity infrastructure Use AI tools to accelerate software development, code review, exploration, and automation Contribute to architecture and technical strategy for the identity platform Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization Participate in interviewing and hiring as the team grows Operate with high ownership across foundational security and platform systems Ideal Candidate Background Experience Requirements 5+ years of professional experience in backend, platform, infrastructure, or security engineering Hands-on experience building authentication, authorization, identity, or permissions systems Experience building single sign-on, access management, or authorization services at scale Experience designing and operating production identity infrastructure Experience working with distributed systems Experience building backend services and APIs Experience working in reputable, talent-dense technology organizations Demonstrated career progression through increasing scope, responsibility, or promotions Experience owning critical infrastructure end-to-end Strong software engineering fundamentals Experience working closely with platform, infrastructure, and security teams Strong ownership mentality with demonstrated execution ability Comfortable operating independently on complex technical systems Strong interest in identity, authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure Technical Requirements Strong TypeScript or JavaScript engineering experience Strong backend engineering experience Hands-on authentication and authorization experience Experience with identity and access management systems Experience with SSO and access management Experience with roles, permissions, and authorization models Experience with session management and token systems Experience with service-to-service authentication Strong distributed systems fundamentals Experience building scalable backend services and APIs Experience with Node.js or comparable backend runtimes Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or comparable databases Experience working with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure Experience with production monitoring and observability tools Experience designing reliable and secure production systems Strong understanding of security principles and access controls Strong debugging and production troubleshooting capabilities Strong system design and software architecture skills Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field preferred Strong computer science, distributed systems, security, and software engineering fundamentals Equivalent practical engineering experience accepted Soft Skills Exceptional technical ownership Strong analytical and problem-solving ability Deep technical curiosity Strong security mindset Strong communication skills Comfortable collaborating with platform, infrastructure, security, product, and engineering teams High execution velocity Strong attention to system reliability and security Strong architectural judgment Ability to reason from first principles Comfortable handling complex and ambiguous infrastructure problems Low-ego collaborative mentality Strong mentoring and technical leadership ability Comfortable sharing technical context with other engineers Strong bias toward operational excellence Comfortable operating in a high-trust engineering environment Strong interest in identity and access management Comfortable working remotely across the United States or Canada Compensation & Benefits Base Salary: $210,000 – $250,000 Competitive Equity Package Opportunity to own foundational identity and access infrastructure Significant technical ownership over authentication and authorization systems Opportunity to work on critical security infrastructure used across the entire product Direct collaboration with platform, infrastructure, security, product, and engineering teams Opportunity to shape identity architecture and engineering standards Exposure to distributed systems, security infrastructure, and large-scale backend systems Opportunity to mentor engineers and raise technical standards High-trust engineering environment Opportunity to influence foundational platform architecture Why Join This is an opportunity to work on one of the most critical infrastructure layers inside a rapidly growing technology company: identity and access. You'll own systems responsible for determining who can access what, how users authenticate, how services communicate securely, and how permissions are enforced across the platform. As a Senior/Staff engineer, you'll have significant influence over the architecture, reliability, security, and long-term evolution of the identity platform. If you enjoy backend engineering, distributed systems, authentication, authorization, security infrastructure, and owning foundational systems that every product team depends on, this role offers exceptional technical scope and impact.