Software Engineer (All Levels) Bristol, England
Job description
About ForgeRock:
In today's highly connected digital world, understanding, managing and securing the identity of individuals and things is essential to safety and success of both businesses and their customers. Billions of people connect from anywhere, use a wide variety of devices and expect a seamless yet secure experience.
The ForgeRock mission is to provide the most simple and comprehensive Identity and Access Management Platform to help our customers deepen their relationships with their consumers and improve the productivity and connectivity of their employees and partners. Our identity solution enables great digital experiences and is embedded with a rich set of security, privacy and consent features. We deliver our platform through both cloud services and on-premises software.
Our customers are some of the biggest companies, organizations, and even countries in the world. On any given day, it's likely that the ForgeRock Identity Platform helped keep your data safe, gave you access to stuff, and supported trusted relationships between you, companies and the devices you were using.
ForgeRock is headquartered in San Francisco, but we are a global company with offices in the following cities: Vancouver, WA; Austin, TX; Bristol, UK; Grenoble FR; Oslo NO; and Singapore. Please read more about us at forgerock.com or follow ForgeRock on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/forgerock.
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The Role:*
In this Software Engineer role, you'd play an important part in the development of an integral platform enabling millions of users everyday interactions. In the process, you'll learn about how our Access Management product empowers our customers to succeed in their mission. This will involve working in a collaborative, agile and continuously improving team within an open, flexible and transparent environment based upon a flat-level communication structure. Each team takes on a variety of work/features and works in sprints.
If you want an opportunity to join a rapidly growing company, you will love working in our team focused, autonomous environment where we put the emphasis on providing the tools, benefits, and perks that allow you to focus on your work while maintaining balance in your life.
What you'll be working with:
- Java 11
- Git, Maven
- Implementing and enhancing Standards (e.g. OAuth2, OIDC, UMA, CIBA)
- Vue.js - Platform UIs and internal dashboards
- GraphQL - Internal APIs
- Jenkins (Pipelines) - CI/CD
- GCP - Internal APIs and CI/CD infrastructure
- Docker & Kubernetes
What you'll be doing:
- Lead the design and development of large-scale, robust, and cutting-edge Java-based identity management products
- Work closely with product management and architects to improve the platform and develop new features for ForgeRock's Access Management product
- Lead key areas of future product development
- Enable successful cloud deployments and implement new standards
- Manage tasks independently and efficiently to timescales/plans
- Collaborate closely with support and sustaining teams to help resolve customer issues
- Direct interaction with ForgeRock open source user and developer communities
- Provide mentoring and coaching to engineering team
If you find yourself checking off most of the below, this could be the position for you!
- Good knowledge of Java; designing and developing large scale applications
- Strong understanding of with RESTful web services
- Expert grounding in modern software engineering practices and design patterns, including the design and implementation of modern web applications
- Possess the desire to learn and curiosity to understand how and why things work
- Background in Agile methodologies within a fast-paced software development environment
- Demonstrate strong collaboration, communication, and teamwork skills
- Comfortable working within distributed global team
Life at ForgeRock:
We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We're growing quickly, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most importantly, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that's who we want to succeed with every day.
Here are just a few of the things that make ForgeRock special:
- A company culture that empowers you to do your best work.
- Employee Resource Groups that create a sense of belonging for everyone.
- Regular company and team bonding events.
- Competitive benefits and perks.
- Recognition programs that reward employees with meaningful experiences.
- Global volunteering and community initiatives
ForgeRock is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone's individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity. In recruiting for new colleagues, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring and encourage you to be your best self.
We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
