Staff iOS Engineer - B2C Native Apps

📋 Description

• • Join Okta, The World’s Identity Company, as a Staff iOS Engineer, focusing on B2C Native Apps. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of identity management by enhancing the user experience of our authentication and authorization platform, Auth0.
• • As a key member of the Native Apps team, you will operate within a fast-paced, agile environment, collaborating closely with engineers, a product manager, and a designer to deliver exceptional products.
• • You will serve as a technical steward, taking ownership of the codebase as if it were your own product, ensuring its quality, maintainability, and scalability.
• • Your expertise will be crucial as a technical subject matter expert for the iOS platform, where you will mentor fellow engineers, lead technical discussions, and drive architectural decisions.
• • We are looking for proactive individuals who don't wait for explicit instructions but rather take initiative to identify and implement solutions that ensure project success.
• • A significant aspect of your role will involve contributing to an awesome customer experience with our products, ensuring that users have a seamless and secure interaction with Okta's identity solutions.
• • You will actively collaborate with the support team to address customer inquiries, providing technical insights and solutions to ensure customer satisfaction.
• • As part of a critical team, you will participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring the continuous availability and reliability of our services.
• • Mentoring other engineers is a core responsibility, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the team.
• • You will play an active role in leading refinement and sprint planning sessions, contributing to efficient and effective agile development processes.
• • A key objective will be to continuously improve the team’s overall productivity and efficiency through process enhancements and technical innovation.
• • This role emphasizes leveraging AI coding assistants, such as GitHub Copilot or Google Gemini, to accelerate the software development lifecycle. You will be proficient in using LLMs for rapid prototyping, generating boilerplate code, and performing complex refactoring, thereby significantly reducing development time.
• • Crucially, you must possess the critical judgment to audit, debug, and secure AI-generated code, ensuring it adheres to our stringent authentication and security standards.
• • Your application of AI will extend beyond code generation to creating comprehensive unit tests, documenting systems, and simulating edge-case scenarios within our authentication flows, thereby enhancing code quality and robustness.
• • You will be responsible for the technical integrity, architectural evolution, and long-term scalability of our core product, ensuring it remains at the forefront of identity technology.
• • We value individuals who are autonomous, possess a continuous improvement mindset, and are dedicated to delivering high-quality, user-centric solutions.
• • A keen attention to detail and a commitment to prioritizing user experience are essential for success in this role.
• • You will thrive in a highly collaborative and remote-friendly environment, contributing to a positive and productive team dynamic.
• • Okta is committed to building a world where Identity belongs to you, and this role is central to that mission by ensuring our native applications provide a secure, seamless, and delightful experience for millions of users worldwide.
• • You will contribute to the evolution of our B2C Authentication domain, which aims to provide a simple, secure, standards-compliant, and delightful authentication experience for both end-users and developers.
• • The technology stack is dynamic and includes NodeJS, React, Golang, Swift, Java/Kotlin, and Postgres/MongoDB databases, running on AWS and Azure, with a continuous adoption of new technologies and trends.
• • You will be at the forefront of developing and maintaining native iOS applications that are critical to Okta's product offering, ensuring they are robust, secure, and performant.
• • Your work will directly impact the security and usability of Okta's identity solutions for a vast consumer base, making a tangible difference in how people access digital services safely.
• • We encourage a culture of innovation, where you can explore and implement cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to solve complex problems in the identity space.
• • You will have the opportunity to influence the technical direction of the iOS platform within Okta, contributing to architectural decisions and best practices.
• • This role offers a unique blend of deep technical challenge and direct user impact, making it an exciting opportunity for experienced iOS engineers looking to make a significant contribution.