Why This Role ExistsWe are establishing our San Francisco office as a strategic center for high-bandwidth engineering and product innovation. This is a foundational role for an engineer who thrives in an in-person, collaborative environment and wants to accelerate their career by being "in the room" where our most complex architectural decisions are made.
While Authorium is a distributed company, our SF office is where we tackle our most intricate "war room" challenges-from modularizing our core domain to whiteboarding the next generation of our workflow engine. You will be a key contributor to the technical integrity of our platform, shipping mission-critical features and collaborating daily with a high-caliber team to power our next major phase of expansion.
What You Will Be Doing- Shipping Core Features: Deliver complex, high-impact features across our platform-from building robust versioning systems to designing intricate approval workflows and permission models.
- Technical Evolution: Participate in architectural decisions that scale across multiple customer configurations. You'll contribute to ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) and help drive the modularization of our core domain.
- High-Bandwidth Collaboration: Work in-person (Monday-Thursday) in our SF office to whiteboard solutions, debug production bottlenecks, and move from idea to deployment at high velocity.
- Engineering Craft: Uphold a high bar for technical excellence. You'll engage in deep, architectural code reviews and contribute to the advancement of our automated quality gates.
- AI-Native Workflow: Leverage Cursor and Claude to offload boilerplate and focus on complex implementation. You'll help refine our AI-first patterns-including agentic testing and automated reviews-ensuring the team operates at maximum leverage.
Must Have- 3+ years of professional full-stack experience. We value deep engineering fundamentals-system design, database optimization, and clean architecture-over fluency in any specific syntax.
- Systems Thinker: A demonstrated ability to understand and contribute to complex domain objects and data models in production environments.
- High-Agency: You don't wait for a perfectly groomed ticket. You are comfortable partnering with product managers to turn ambiguous requirements into elegant technical specs.
- Security Minded: You treat security as a core engineering discipline. You have a strong working knowledge of defensive coding practices and the authorization models required to protect sensitive data.
- Quality Obsessed: A history of writing clean, maintainable code with comprehensive testing. You take pride in your PR history and believe that "done" includes documentation and observability.
- San Francisco Based: Energized by an in-office (Monday-Thursday) collaborative culture.
Nice to Have- Modern Frontend Experience: Familiarity with React and/or Next.js - we're actively evolving our frontend stack, and if React or Next.js is in your background, we want to hear about it.
- Ruby on Rails Proficiency: Strong knowledge of Rails conventions and an interest in (or experience with) modular monoliths.
- Complex Document Infrastructure: Experience with document generation (PDFs), rich text editors, or building systems to process unstructured data within secure workflows.
- Regulated Industry Experience: Previous work in compliance-heavy environments such as GovTech, FinTech, or HealthTech (FedRAMP, SOC 2, or HIPAA).
- Infrastructure Curiosity: Experience with or a strong desire to learn AWS infrastructure (ECS/EKS, CloudWatch) and modern deployment pipelines.
- Startup Veteran: Previous experience in a fast-growing startup ($5M-$30M ARR range) where you navigated rapid change and contributed to a scaling product.
Benefits- Salary: $148,750-$201,250
- Offers equity
- 100% benefits coverage for employee
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible PTO
- Home office stipend
- Comprehensive wellness benefits
- Commuter stipend for hybrid roles
