Principal Software Developer

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 Technical Software 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

• 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

• 12+ 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.

Salary: $175,000 - $225,000 (depending on experience and qualifications).

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