SuperTokens

Open source alternative to Auth0 / AWS Cognito / Firebase Auth

Sr Fullstack Engineer

$80K - $100K
Location
Remote (US)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
6+ years
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Advait Ruia
Advait Ruia
Founder

About the role

Please apply with the following:

  • Updated CV
  • Linkedin profile
  • Github (highlight if you have contributed to any open source project or have developed any tools for developers)
  • Other links (working links of mobile or web app you've developed, any technical blog you wrote)
  • Portfolio link (if any)

SuperTokens builds open-source user authentication and is being used by 1000+ developers across the globe, including at some of the world's largest companies. We're growing 30-40% MoM on adoption metrics and are in the early stages of monetization. This is the perfect time to join and get some equity in our company.

Why should you join us?

  • Our market is large, any webapp that requires auth.
  • Work on open source, and getting paid for it!
  • We are backed by Y Combinator and have access to some of the best and smartest founders in the world.
  • You can work remotely with flexible work hours and leave policy.
  • Our product is interesting in that it’s not another mobile or web app. It will form a core infrastructure layer for our users. As a devtool company, our users are other developers and hence you can empathize with our user base.
  • We are solving a big pain point for most developers.
  • Get to learn about the most critical aspects of web app security.
  • Your work will directly affect our user’s experience, and is one of the most important parts of our product.
  • In terms of funding: We’ve closed a seed round and a pre series A round from a top tier US VC firm that specialises in devtools and were over subscribed.
  • In terms of user growth: We’ve seen 25-30% MoM growth over the last couple of months and have companies across the board using SuperTokens in production. We’ve had apps with 300k+ MAUs migrate from Auth0, Firebase and Cognito to SuperTokens. We have a significant amount of high-intent organic inbound from mid-market / large companies.

What kind of work will you get?

We are looking for a fullstack engineer.

Examples of technical tasks:

  • Working on our frontend and backend SDKs.
  • Architecting auth flows.

Requirements

  • Well versed in HTML, CSS and Javascript. Frameworks such as React are a bonus.
  • Familiar with and comfortable working SQL Databases (will be a plus).
  • Advanced understanding of at least one object oriented programming language (Go, Python, NodeJs, Java etc).
  • Expert in Git.
  • Expertise in Linux and / or MacOS + using CLI.
  • Fimilar with Docker.
  • Good to have NextJs/Nuxt/Svelte/Remix (any one).
  • Previous startup experience.
  • Contributed to open source, or have your own open source repo with a community and many github stars.
  • A personal website or Technical Blogs.

Bonus:

Built an in-house authentication or authorization solution or worked with solutions such as Keycloak, Auth0, Ory, Okta etc. Note: Compensation is as per the applicant's geography.

About the interview

Introductory call - 30 minutes One of our team members will get on a call with you. This call is to discuss your role and motivation for applying to the company along with your expectations from the position. The call may also involve a discussion on some tech concepts (no code required though).

Technical Interview (1/2) - 1.5 hours Discussion on your past work, this will involve sharing your work (code and output) via screen share. Architecture discussion and general programming related live code problems. You will be allowed to use Google throughout the interview and you will be required to have screen share on. This call will be with the CTO.

Technical Interview (2/2) - 1.5 hour This will involve a discussion to assess the breadth and depth of your technical knowledge and general questions on various technical topics. You will not be asked to write any code. This call will be with the CTO.

About SuperTokens

SuperTokens is building open source authentication (as an alternative to Auth0, Firebase and AWS Cognito). Add secure, hassle free authentication to your app in 1 day. We enable startups to launch quicker and focus on their core product offering

  1. We're easier to implement as we take a modular approach - making it possible to pick only the features you need for your use case. This means you need not worry about complications associated with other features (eg: SSO and OAuth if you don’t need it) and this in turn makes it easier to implement and manage SuperTokens.
  2. Developer's can own and manage their user's data.
  3. SuperTokens can be run on your premise for free and also has a generous hosted tier for those who dont want to manage it themselves.

SuperTokens is being used by hundreds of developers across the globe.

Our medium-term goal is to build an open-core authentication solution that is secure, flexible, and most importantly, is very simple to use.

SuperTokens
Founded:2019
Team Size:10
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Advait Ruia
Advait Ruia
Founder