Backend Platform Team Lead

Job Description

About Us

HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we’ve achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over ~4000 midsize and multinational companies.Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Fast-growing companies across the globe such as Monzo, Happy Socks, Fiverr, and VaynerMedia rely upon Bob to help them create the best work experiences for their people.

Come and be you with us

 Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that’s bubbly, shy, precise, funny, bold, kind, honest, brilliant, or anything in between, we’re waiting with open arms. Come join us.

Within the group, the Identity Platform team safeguards every user interaction by delivering secure, low‑latency authentication and fine‑grained authorization as a service. We treat Platform as a Product—providing frictionless login, SSO, and permissions tooling so 60+ product squads can focus on customer value while we uphold performance, reliability, and security.

If building the backbone that keeps a $2.45 B unicorn fast, trusted, and compliant sounds exciting, read on.

• 8+ years building large‑scale SaaS backends, with 3+ years in a tech‑lead/staff role.

• Proven expertise designing cloud‑native micro‑services on AWS (EKS/ECS, service mesh, event streaming).

• Deep understanding of identity protocols (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, SCIM), session security, and token‑based auth.

• Strong background in relational & NoSQL stores (PostgreSQL, Redis) and high‑throughput event pipelines (Kafka/Kinesis) powering auth flows.

• Hands‑on experience with multi‑tenant architecture, resilience patterns, performance tuning, and cost optimisation at scale.

• Excellent system‑design communication skills—able to articulate trade‑offs to engineers and executives alike.

• Passion for mentorship and growing others.

• Developing security-related infrastructure.

• Experience integrating with enterprise IdPs (Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace) and implementing federation, MFA, or conditional access.

• Contributions to open‑source identity or policy enforcement projects.

• Own the technical vision for Hibob’s Identity Platform: centralised Authentication (password, magic‑link, social) and Authorization (RBAC/ABAC, fine‑grained permissions, audit).

• Design and evolve multi‑tenant identity services—login, session management, token issuance, SAML/OIDC connectors, SCIM provisioning—built for 10× scale and sub‑100 ms latency.

• Work hands-on alongside your team, writing high-quality code and setting technical direction.

• Build golden‑path SDKs and paved roads that let product squads secure endpoints with a single annotation and delegate permission checks to the platform.

• Embed secure‑by‑default patterns in every architecture review, ensuring new services meet our SLIs/SLOs for reliability, observability, and compliance.

• Mentor and unblock engineers through pairing, design reviews, and knowledge sharing; cultivate a high-trust, feedback-rich culture.

• Measure and iterate: track sign-in success rates, authentication latencies, and authorization decision times; run chaos and load tests to improve continuously.

Join our village

HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you’ll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:

• Company share options plan
• We have a flexible hybrid working model
• Work from home allowance- to get your home office set up!
• Payment for sick leave from the first day
• 2 Social Impact days per year for volunteering
• Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
• Awesome employee referral program- $2,500 for each successful referral with an additional ambassador programme
• 10 bis or cibus/wolt- you get to pick!
• Transportation allowance
• Dog-friendly
• Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 months (after 6 months of employment)
• Fun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)
• Bob balance days - 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter

If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village!