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Twilio is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company established in 2007. In support of a flexible workplace, Twilio has previously posted freelance, flexible sched
Senior Product Engineer, Backend
Location
California
Posted
157 days ago
Salary
$141.5K - $208K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Product Engineer, Backend
Twilio
• Build and own backend product capabilities for Stytch’s identity platform on Twilio—shipping new API surfaces and core authentication flows, including agentic and non-human identity use cases. • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to set direction, translate customer needs into product capabilities, and deliver high-impact roadmap features. • Collaborate across Twilio and Stytch teams to align on architecture, integrate platform capabilities, and unblock cross-team initiatives. • Operate with deep technical ownership: author design docs, drive key technical decisions, review code, and stay close to the systems you ship. • Build in ambiguity—break down complex problems, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and design developer experiences that delight our customers. • Improve production quality and resilience through strong observability, incident response and remediation. • Mentor and support other engineers through pairing, feedback, and knowledge-sharing, helping raise the team’s technical bar and culture.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years experience in designing, building and operating high-scale, mission critical cloud based production systems.
- Familiarity with a production-grade code base in a modern programming language, applying best practice coding standards and writing high quality code.
- Extensive experience with RESTful API design and development.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related industry experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Schedule: ability to work non-standard, on-call rotation weekend and holiday hours.
- Familiarity with Go, TypeScript, and DynamoDB (desired).
- Experience building developer tools or SDKs (desired).
- Experience building and owning products consumed by paying customers (desired).
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Generous time off
- Ample parental and wellness leave
- Healthcare
- Retirement savings program
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