Purpose in Every Position.
At Velocity Global, we believe that success knows no borders—and it’s built by teams working together across them. Our unified, tech-enabled platform empowers businesses to hire, pay, and support talent in 185+ countries, making global growth not just possible, but seamless. Behind every expansion and every solution is a spirit of collaboration between our teams and the companies we serve. With AI-powered tools and human-first service, we simplify the complexity of global workforce management so businesses can focus on what matters: their people, their purpose, and their potential.
Where Your Work Moves the Needle.
At Velocity Global, every team member helps shape our success. When you join us, you don’t just fill a role—you live our values. They guide how we work, collaborate, and make an impact across borders. By bringing these principles to life, you’ll help us grow stronger, move faster, and lead the future of global work.
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Staff Fullstack Software Engineer to join our Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. In this critical role, you will design and build secure, scalable, and user-friendly IAM solutions that ensure seamless authentication, authorization, and identity management. You will leverage technologies like ReactJS, TypeScript, Postgres, and AWS in a serverless environment to create systems that protect our users and infrastructure.
This role requires in office presence in our Palo Alto office.
How You'll Make an Impact:
- Designing and developing Identity and Access management capabilities including APIs to support customers and microservice authentication and authorization.
- Liaison with Product Manager, Engineering Manager and other agile teams to align with the overall product vision and architecture design.
- The ability to lead a team of engineers to deliver on cross-functional projects
- Extraordinary communication and collaboration skills. You are pragmatic and know how to build trust.
- Design and develop software solutions that meet the needs of our customers and align with the company's overall strategy.
- Contributing to quality and security through code reviews and Agile driven test-based-development, documentation and continuous integration processes.
- Continuously improve the performance and scalability of the company's software products.
- Stay current with new technologies and industry developments to ensure that the company's software products remain competitive.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the overall growth and development of the engineering team.
- Bachelor's (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field such as physics or mathematics, or equivalent technical experience.
- 6+ years of experience in software development preferred.
- Extensive knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) concepts, such as authentication, authorization, RBAC/ABAC, account lifecycle, least privilege, etc.
- Expertise of Identity System concepts and protocols (SAML, OpenID, OAuth, SCIM) and a strong understanding of security standard methodologies and encryption protocols.
- Experience with OKTA, Auth0 and OPA based policy engines is a plus.
- Experience with AWS technologies like serverless, api gateways, SQS, eventbridge and API technologies like REST and GraphQL.
- Good understanding of OOP and Functional programming.
- Deep understanding of testing approaches and methodologies.
- Experience with handling high volume of requests and working with multithreaded and distributed services.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience working in a remote environment.
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Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay depends upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.
Our Commitment to You
At Velocity Global, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include:
- Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to recharge.
- Parental Leave – Support for growing families.
- Health and Dental Insurance – Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones.
- Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan – Plan for the future while sharing our success.
Please visit our career page for more information.
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What We Do
Velocity Global accelerates the future of work for anyone, anywhere, anyhow. Its Global Work Platform™ simplifies the employer and talent experience through its proprietary cloud-based talent management technology, backed by personalized expertise and unmatched global scale. The platform offers a full suite of talent solutions, including global Employer of Record and Contractor Management, to help companies onboard, manage, and pay talent in more than 185 countries and all 50 United States.
Founded in 2014, the company has hundreds of employees across six continents, with plans to double in size in 2022.
As a work anywhere company, Velocity Global employees can create a work experience to fit their lifestyle, giving them the freedom to pursue their passion without the hassle of long commutes, rigid schedules and overlapping work-life demands. We empower people to live life fully, supported by a dynamic culture, growth opportunities and unique benefits. In the words of our founder, Ben Wright: “Professional experiences of a lifetime start here.”
