About Acquia
Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.
Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company in India, is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!
Acquia runs one of the world's largest Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. Our Drupal optimized cloud runs on over 18,000 AWS instances and delivers billions of page views per month, running some of the largest and most mission-critical websites in the world. We are seeking exceptional professionals who desire to deliver world-class performance and reliability while building powerful tools that enable our customers effortlessly to scale their web applications. At Acquia, we are obsessive about providing our customers with security, availability, and scalability that is second to none and are looking for engineers who are equally passionate.
Acquia’s products run 100% on Amazon Web Services using EC2, CloudFormation, and various other technologies and best practices. Since each product is built and maintained by its own engineering team, the ideal candidate for this position would need to be proactive in familiarizing themselves with those services and have the ability to coordinate and collaborate with multiple teams.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will...
- Work in a highly collaborative environment with front and back-end engineers, product managers, product owners, and product designers.
- Maintain and build new integrations with our Okta-based IdP
- Work on a new fine-grained permissions system based on OpenFGA and assist teams with migration to this system
- Build RESTful API endpoints for the services owned by the Identity team
- Contribute to system architecture discussions, lead projects, mentor junior team members, and deliver high quality, tested code.
- Create automated tests.
- Collaborate with your team members to review their work and have your work reviewed in turn.
- Design and develop unit and system tests that give the team confidence to deploy to production multiple times per day.
- Produce comprehensive software documentation for public and internal use.
- Work in a team environment where your team owns and operates the services you build.
You’ll enjoy this role if you…
- Use sound rationale for problem identification and decision making.
- Want to work in a collaborative and supportive manner with not only your team but internal stakeholders as well.
- Are passionate about creating and maintaining high quality software that provides direct value to customers.
- Strive to consistently achieve excellence, not only for yourself, but for your teammates.
- Enjoy refactoring code as you strive for continuous improvement.
- Have a passion for User Experience.
What you’ll need to be successful…
- Have 5+ years of software development experience.
- Have experience and demonstrable knowledge of authentication standards (SAML and OpenID Connect), including federated identity standards (SCIM).
- Have experience and demonstrable knowledge of authorization standards (Oauth2)
- Have experience and demonstrable knowledge of implementing access control mechanisms, specifically RBAC (role-based access control) and ReBAC (resource based access control).
- Are proficient with PHP, especially Symfony and API Platform (Show us your GitHub profile)
- Have familiarity with design patterns; and write clean, maintainable code.
- Experience working in Agile and continuous delivery environments.
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD tooling, as well as experience writing unit and system tests.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially transforming product requirements into development plans.
Extra credit if you have…
- Familiarity with OpenFGA
- Front end development experience, especially with Angular
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Design by Contract, Domain-Driven Design and CQRS (Nice to have)
Acquia is headquartered in Boston, and has offices and remote workers elsewhere in North America, Europe, India, and other global locations. The Drupal Acceleration Team is distributed throughout these locations.
We are an organization that embraces innovation and the potential of AI to enhance our processes and improve our work. We are always looking for individuals who are open to learning new technologies and collaborating with AI tools to achieve our goals.
Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!
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