Lead Full Stack Engineer

Want to be on a team that is full of results-driven individuals who are constantly seeking to innovate? Want to make an impact? At SailPoint, our Engineering team does just that. Our engineering is where high-quality professional engineering meets individual impact.

SailPoint is seeking a seeking a Lead / Principal Full Stack Engineer to provide senior technical leadership across our web platforms. This is a hands-on individual contributor role responsible for frontend architecture while also contributing to backend-for-frontend and integration layers.

The role partners closely with engineering leadership and existing technical leads and does not include direct people management.

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural leadership across frontend and full stack web applications

• Design, build, and maintain scalable solutions using Next.js, React, and TypeScript

• Lead implementation of server-side rendering, API routes, and middleware

• Establish and enforce engineering standards and best practices

• Own complex CMS-driven and content-heavy workflows

• Mentor engineers and serve as a technical escalation point

• Collaborate with backend, platform, product, and design teams

• Ensure performance, security, accessibility, and internationalization standards

Requirements:

• Advanced experience with React and Next.js (App Router, Server Components)

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript

• Experience building and consuming APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)

• Server-side rendering and edge middleware patterns

• Headless CMS experience (Sanity preferred), including schema and content modeling

• Modern styling and component architecture practices

• Git-based workflows and CI/CD familiarity

Preferred:

• CMS page builder and schema-driven rendering systems

• Internationalization and localization at scale

• Form workflows and enterprise integrations (CRM, marketing platforms)

• Monitoring and observability tools (Sentry, analytics)

• Design systems and Storybook

• Accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.1)

• Platform or content migrations (WordPress, CMS migrations)

Qualifications:

• Senior-to-principal level engineering experience

• Proven ability to lead technically without people management responsibilities

• Experience operating in enterprise or large-scale environments

• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary, for US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-mid-max, USD):

Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee’s home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance

2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children

5. Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

9. Sick leave

10. Parental support: Paid parental leave

11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors

12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options

13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.  

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