Frontend Software Engineer, Auth

Responsibilities

You will design and build intuitive interfaces for complex access control and authorization systems, ensuring precise security across the platform. You will partner with product, design, and engineering teams to define workflows and make technical tradeoffs for a scalable frontend architecture.

Requirements

The role requires 3 to 8 years of experience building products for technical users with a focus on authentication and security domains. Candidates must have strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, and modern frontend architecture, along with excellent communication skills.

Skills

• React
• TypeScript
• Authentication
• Access control
• Authorization systems
• Frontend architecture
• API design
• Security-minded design
• Systems thinking
• Product judgment
• OIDC
• SAML
• SpiceDB
• AuthZed
• Performance engineering
• Data modeling

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Sick leave
• Free lunch
• Snacks
• Coffee
• Professional development stipend
• Annual company retreat

About this role

ABOUT NOMINAL

Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering the
world's most advanced hardware systems, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles
to next-generation defense programs. Our platform gives hardware engineering
teams a single place to ingest data, analyze performance, automate test
execution, and collaborate across every phase of development, so they can move
faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We're a fast-moving team that
owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the
intersection of hardware and software.

We serve top-tier commercial and defense customers, from autonomy leaders like
Anduril and Shield AI to next-generation aerospace teams like Hermeus and
REGENT, and performance engineering teams like Pratt Miller Motorsports,
alongside mission partners within the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force on programs
where failure isn't an option. We're backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst,
Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed. Our team draws from SpaceX,
Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies, united by a
common mission: giving hardware engineers the tools to build the future with
speed, safety, and confidence.

JOIN NOMINAL AS A FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER, AUTH

At Nominal, the frontend goes far beyond a visual layer on top of APIs. For the
Auth team, it's where administrators decide who can see and change sensitive
test data, and where every user learns what they're allowed to do and why. Our
customers run programs where the wrong person seeing the wrong data is a serious
problem, so access control has to be precise, and the interface has to make that
precision clear.

We're looking for engineers who love reasoning about permission models as much
as building intuitive interfaces. You'll work at the intersection of product,
design, and engineering to turn a relationship-based authorization system into
tools that let admins control access with confidence and let users understand
exactly why they can or can't see something. Success in this role is measured by
building products that make a precise, deny-by-default permission model legible
without hiding its power.

You'll partner closely with backend engineers, designers, and product teams to
define workflows, shape product direction, and make thoughtful technical
tradeoffs in an environment where requirements are often ambiguous and the best
solutions aren't immediately obvious. You'll own the auth frontend largely end
to end, so your judgment will shape how access control feels across the whole
product.

🚀 ABOUT THE ROLE

Design products around access control
Build the interfaces administrators use to assign roles, manage users and
groups, create workspaces, issue and revoke API keys, and control which data
sources each person can see. You'll help define the workflows and interaction
patterns that make a relationship-based permission model understandable and hard
to misconfigure.

Make permissions visible across the product
Bring the permission model into every part of the app so that what users see
matches what they're allowed to do, from hiding actions they can't take to
explaining why. You'll also build the sign-in experiences that connect Nominal
to customers' enterprise identity providers.

Own ambiguous product problems
Partner closely with product, design, and engineering to turn loosely defined
ideas into intuitive user experiences. You'll challenge assumptions, validate
workflows directly with users, and make confident product decisions when
requirements are incomplete.

Build systems, not just screens
Develop scalable frontend architecture using React, TypeScript, and modern web
technologies. You'll work across application state, data fetching, rendering,
and performance to support complex workflows and large datasets.

Make complexity feel simple
Design experiences that expose powerful capabilities without overwhelming users.
You'll think deeply about information architecture, interaction design, and how
technical users reason about their work.

Success in this role comes from combining strong frontend engineering with
product judgment. You'll spend as much time thinking about how users reason
about complex systems as you will writing React code.

🙌 WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE

* 3 to 8 years experience building products for technical users where you’ve
been involved in authentication, access control, or similar security domains.
* Strong experience with TypeScript, and modern frontend architecture, along
with an understanding of how frontend systems interact with backend services.
* Experience building products involving industry-standard authentication flows
or working with open source authorization systems such as AuthZed / SpiceDB.
* Strong product instincts. You naturally ask "Why are we building this?"
before "How should I implement it?" and aren't afraid to challenge
assumptions when you believe there's a better solution for users.
* A systems mindset. You enjoy reasoning about data models, user workflows, and
how complex systems should behave before jumping into implementation.
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical and
product tradeoffs clearly across engineering, design, and product teams.

⚡ SKILLS THAT SUPERCHARGE US

Authorization Systems
Experience with role-based or relationship-based access control, and familiarity
with SpiceDB or other Zanzibar-style authorization engines.

Identity & Authentication
Comfort with sign-in flows, session management, and enterprise identity
standards such as OIDC and SAML.

Security-Minded Design
Experience making permission models understandable to end users, or designing
interfaces where correctness has real consequences.

Systems Thinking
Experience designing products around complex object models, relationships, and
workflows rather than simple CRUD interfaces.

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About Nominal

Software Development · 201-500 employees · headquartered in Austin, TX · founded 2022