• Have experience leading a backend API development team
• Skilled at coaching teammates in all phases of their careers
• Experience providing focus to teams to enable them to achieve their goals
• Hands-on who can help a team evaluate trade-offs during various SDLC phases
• Enjoy working in an iterative development environment
• Can add value to a conversation even when you are not familiar with the entire context
• Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results
• Like to lead by example
• Are a great communicator and communication facilitator

Desirable

• Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) is an easy to implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform
• We work with NodeJS, React, Postgres/MongoDB databases, and our services run on both AWS and Azure
• Lead and grow a healthy, inclusive, collaborative team rooted in the opportunities they create for customers
• Ensure each team member deepens their skills through coaching, training, and mentoring
• Work with product and design to build the roadmap for Embedded Login at Okta CIC. This involves talking to engineers, other teams, and various stakeholders within the company
• Review your team’s work to meet high-performance standards
• As required, work on relevant stories, tasks, and bugs from your team’s backlog
• Tie every piece of work back to the mission of making the internet safer and the business value of making it easier for companies to solve Auth
• Have the opportunity to gain a great understanding and context about how Okta CIC works and learn more about security protocols and how to build reliable, highly available systems