At OneSpan, we specialize in digital identity and anti-fraud solutions that create exceptional and secure experiences.
OneSpan helps the world's leading banks, enterprises, and governments secure digital identities, transactions, and agreements. We empower critical infrastructure organizations to thrive by enabling secure, compliant, and frictionless digital interactions. Trusted by 60% of the world's top 100 banks, we protect over 300 million endpoints globally with award-winning authentication, mobile app security, and anti-fraud solutions. Our Passkey Solution — built on FIDO2/WebAuthn — represents a cornerstone of our next-generation authentication portfolio and a recognized market-leading product. Join us in shaping the passwordless future.
About the Role
We're looking for a Software Development Technical Lead to join our growing team in San Jose, CA. Candidates must reside in the San Jose area. In this role, you will own the design and delivery of scalable, secure backend services for our authentication and identity platforms. You'll set the technical bar for a distributed engineering team, guide architecture and code quality, and partner closely with Product, Security, and Platform to ship features that protect our customers' most sensitive transactions.
What You'll Do
- Knowledge or experience with Spec-driven development (SDD) methodology.
- Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performing services and REST APIs.
- Provide technical leadership for a distributed team through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.
- Drive scalability, reliability, and security across distributed systems.
- Partner with Product, Security, and Platform teams to deliver high-impact features.
- Champion best practices for zero-downtime deployments, observability, and system resilience.
- Drive adoption of AI coding tools across the team to improve development velocity and quality.
- Present and demonstrate product value and capabilities to internal stakeholders and external audiences.
What You'll Bring
- 10+ years of software product development experience, delivering products used at scale by customers.
- 7+ years of experience as a technical lead for product development teams.
- Proven experience with identity and authentication platforms.
- Strong expertise in Java, distributed systems, and API design.
- Experience with zero-downtime deployments and production-grade systems.
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle).
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-based deployments.
Preferred:
- Experience using, and leading teams in using, AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as part of the development workflow.
Why Join OneSpan
- Lead the product strategy for a market-leading passkey solution trusted by some of the world's largest banks.
- Work at the frontier of FIDO2/passkey technology with a team that has been in the space from the beginning.
- Collaborate with a global team of security experts and make a tangible impact protecting hundreds of millions of users.
- The opportunity to shape a category-defining product at the forefront of the passwordless movement, with real impact on how hundreds of millions of people authenticate.
- Be part of a company recognized as a KuppingerCole 2026 Leadership Compass leader in Passwordless Authentication for Enterprises.
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without the need for employer sponsorship. Candidates must reside in the San Jose area as this is a Hybrid role with 2/3 days in the San Jose office.
Salary: $175,000 - $225,000 (depending on experience and qualifications).
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Skills Required
- 15+ years of software product delivery experience building and operating products at scale for SaaS and/or on-premise customers.
- 8+ years leading distributed, multi-team engineering organizations.
- Proven experience with identity and authentication platforms.
- Strong background designing and scaling distributed systems and APIs.
- Experience with zero-downtime deployments and production-grade, highly available systems.
- Experience delivering products backed by both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-based deployment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Authorization to work in the United States on a permanent basis without employer sponsorship.
- Experience leading engineering teams in adopting AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
What We Do
OneSpan enables financial institutions and other organizations to succeed by making bold advances in their digital transformation. We do this by establishing trust in people’s identities, the devices they use, and the transactions that shape their lives. We believe that this is the foundation of enhanced business enablement and growth.
Why Work With Us
OneSpan offers the best of both worlds – a solid foundation that only an established global enterprise can provide, with the energy and creativity of an innovative start-up. In every role at OneSpan, you’ll contribute to the success of the most advanced security and e-signature technologies, and have opportunities to grow.
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