Senior Developer, Growth

Senior Developer · Senior · Full Time · Remote

Remote (United States | Canada) · RemoteCAD 144k – 214k7mo ago
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Role

What you'll do.

As a Senior Developer on 1Password's Growth Team, you'll architect and build scalable self-serve experiences, experimentation platforms, and analytics-driven systems that power rapid product iteration for 180,000+ enterprise customers. This role combines full-stack development expertise with product strategy, requiring you to balance rapid experimentation with architectural rigor while mentoring team members in a remote-first, security-focused SaaS environment.

Responsibilities

  • Experimentation Platform Development: Design, architect, and maintain 1Password's experimentation platform infrastructure, including feature flags, instrumentation layers, data quality pipelines, and reporting loops. This involves creating abstractions that enable rapid hypothesis testing while maintaining high reliability standards for enterprise customers.
  • Experiment Design & Implementation: Lead the technical design and implementation of experiments targeting activation, engagement, and expansion metrics. Partner with product managers and data analysts to translate business hypotheses into measurable outcomes, execute multivariate tests, and interpret results to inform product direction.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, and data teams to refine growth hypotheses, establish success metrics, and drive feedback loops. Participate in technical design discussions, contribute to product strategy, and help translate customer insights into engineering priorities.
  • Self-Serve Experience Development: Build net-new self-serve onboarding, activation, and expansion experiences that drive organic growth. Develop customer-facing web applications with focus on performance, accessibility, and user experience while maintaining security and compliance standards.
  • Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Raise engineering standards through code reviews, pair programming sessions, and technical design discussions. Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and help identify technical opportunities that unlock new growth mechanisms.
  • Architecture & Performance Optimization: Balance rapid iteration with long-term architectural health and security. Optimize system performance, improve observability, and establish patterns that scale with 1Password's expanding B2B product suites while maintaining the security and compliance standards the company is known for.
  • Analytics Integration & Instrumentation: Implement comprehensive instrumentation and analytics tracking to measure user behavior, product adoption, and business impact. Ensure data quality, establish meaningful metrics definitions, and create dashboards that drive data-informed decision-making across the growth organization.
  • Backend Systems Evolution: Evolve underlying growth systems and integrations that power product expansion. Contribute to backend architecture decisions, improve system resilience, and identify opportunities to leverage modern development practices and technologies.

Qualifications

What we look for.

Technical

  • Backend Services Development

    5+ years of professional software development experience building production-grade backend services in modern languages such as Go, Node.js, Ruby, or Python. Demonstrated ability to design scalable, maintainable APIs and microservices that handle enterprise-scale traffic and reliability requirements.

  • Frontend Development Expertise

    Deep, hands-on experience building customer-facing web applications using React and/or TypeScript. Proficiency in building performant, responsive user interfaces with strong understanding of modern frontend tooling, state management, and testing practices.

  • Full-Stack Architecture

    Strong ability to work across the entire technology stack, understanding how frontend and backend systems interact. Experience making architectural trade-offs between client-side and server-side logic to optimize user experience and system performance.

  • Analytics & Instrumentation

    Deep expertise in instrumentation, event tracking, and analytics implementation. Strong understanding of how to define meaningful success metrics, structure data pipelines, and ensure data quality for reliable decision-making in growth contexts.

  • SaaS Development Patterns

    Proven experience in production SaaS environments, including multi-tenancy considerations, scaling challenges, API design for integrations, background job processing, and deployment pipelines in cloud-native infrastructures.

Education

  • Computer Science or Engineering Fundamentals

    While not strictly required, a strong foundation in computer science principles, algorithms, and system design is highly valuable. This can be demonstrated through formal education, self-study, or proven hands-on experience building complex systems.

Experience

  • Senior-Level Production SaaS Experience

    Minimum 5+ years of professional software development in production SaaS environments, with demonstrated progression to senior-level responsibilities. Experience owning entire features end-to-end, making significant technical decisions, and influencing architectural direction.

  • Growth & Experimentation Development

    Demonstrated experience leading or significantly contributing to experimentation-driven product development. Proven track record of building or working closely with feature flag systems, A/B testing infrastructure, or data-driven product initiatives that directly impacted user activation or expansion metrics.

  • Cross-functional Technical Leadership

    Experience operating autonomously, driving initiatives forward, and influencing technical direction without requiring extensive guidance. Proven ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, and data teams while maintaining technical credibility and making pragmatic trade-off decisions.

  • Security & Compliance Domains

    Familiarity with security-sensitive or compliance-heavy domains (e.g., fintech, healthcare, cybersecurity, or enterprise software). Understanding of how security principles impact architecture, testing strategies, and operational practices in regulated environments.

Skills

Required

  • Go, Node.js, Ruby, or Python

    Proficiency in at least one modern backend language for building scalable, production-grade services. Strong understanding of language-specific ecosystem, package management, testing frameworks, and deployment patterns.

  • React and/or TypeScript

    Advanced proficiency in React for building component-driven user interfaces and TypeScript for type-safe, maintainable frontend code. Experience with hooks, state management, and modern React patterns.

  • Full-Stack System Design

    Ability to design and implement complete features spanning frontend, backend APIs, databases, and infrastructure. Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, database design, and asynchronous communication patterns.

  • Analytics & Metrics Definition

    Expertise in defining success metrics, implementing event tracking systems, and structuring data for analysis. Comfort with SQL, data modeling, and working with analytics tools to validate hypotheses.

  • Testing & Quality Assurance

    Strong commitment to code quality through unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing. Experience establishing testing standards, improving observability, and reducing production incidents through systematic quality practices.

  • Git & Version Control

    Proficiency with Git workflows, code review practices, and collaborative development. Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing infrastructure, and deployment automation.

  • Autonomous Problem Solving

    Demonstrated ability to identify problems, propose solutions, and drive implementation with minimal guidance. Strong communication skills for articulating technical decisions and explaining trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

  • Amplitude, Looker, Qualtrics

    Nice to have

    Familiarity with modern analytics platforms and business intelligence tools used for measuring user behavior, product adoption, and customer experience. Experience creating dashboards, running queries, and translating data insights into actionable recommendations.

  • Feature Flag & Experimentation Infrastructure

    Nice to have

    Hands-on experience building or significantly contributing to feature flag systems, A/B testing frameworks, or experimentation platforms. Understanding of gradual rollout strategies, targeting algorithms, and statistical analysis for experiments.

  • GraphQL

    Nice to have

    Experience with GraphQL for building flexible, client-driven APIs. Understanding of schema design, query optimization, and how GraphQL enables rapid frontend iteration and reduces over-fetching.

  • Identity & Access Management

    Nice to have

    Familiarity with authentication protocols (OAuth, SAML, OIDC), authorization patterns (RBAC, ABAC), and identity federation. Understanding of how these systems scale in enterprise environments with thousands of users.

  • Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

    Nice to have

    Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code practices. Understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability in production environments.

  • Mentorship & Engineering Leadership

    Nice to have

    Track record of mentoring junior engineers, leading design reviews, and raising team technical standards. Experience documenting decisions, sharing knowledge, and building collaborative engineering cultures.

  • AI-Assisted Development Tools

    Nice to have

    Proficiency with modern AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) and understanding of how to leverage AI responsibly in the software development lifecycle while maintaining code quality and security standards.

Tech stack

Languages

GoNode.js (JavaScript/TypeScript)RubyPythonTypeScript

Frameworks

ReactExpress.js or SimilarRailsDjango or FastAPI

Databases

PostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchData Warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)

Tools

Git & GitHubAmplitude or MixpanelLooker or TableauLaunchDarkly or SplitDocker & KubernetesDatadog, New Relic, or Similar

Other

REST & GraphQL APIsEvent-Driven ArchitectureStatistical Analysis & Hypothesis TestingSecurity & Compliance PracticesAI-Assisted Development

Compensation

Pay and benefits.

Base·CAD 144,000 – 214,000

Full posting

Original listing.

1Password is growing. We’ve surpassed $400M in ARR and we’re continuing to accelerate, earning a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100 for four years in a row and teaming up with iconic partners like Oracle Red Bull Racing.

About 1Password

At 1Password, we’re building the foundation for a safe, productive digital future. Our mission is to unleash employee productivity without compromising security by ensuring every identity is authentic, every application sign-in is secure, and every device is trusted. We innovated the market-leading enterprise password manager and pioneered Unified Access Management, a new cybersecurity category built for the way people and AI agents work today. As one of the most loved brands in cybersecurity, we take a human-centric approach in everything from product strategy to user experience. Over 180,000 businesses, from Fortune 100 leaders to the world’s most innovative AI companies, trust 1Password to help their teams securely adopt the SaaS and AI tools they need to do their best work.

If you're excited about the opportunity to contribute to the digital safety of millions, to work alongside a team of curious, driven individuals, and to solve hard problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, then we want to hear from you. Come join us and help shape a safer, simpler digital future.

We are seeking a Senior Developer to join our Growth Team, focused on building net-new self-serve experiences, evolving the underlying systems and integrations that power Product Growth, and driving rapid experimentation and feedback loops across our expanding B2B product suites.

How we’re using AI today

Our Engineering, Product, and Design teams are thoughtfully integrating AI across the full software and product development lifecycle to move faster without sacrificing quality or security. In practice, that looks like engineers using AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate reviews and catch bugs earlier, product managers synthesizing user research at scale, and designers rapidly prototyping and iterating with AI-generated mockups. We approach AI the same way we approach security: with clear principles, human accountability at every consequential decision point, and rigorous evaluation before anything ships to customers.

This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US.

What we're looking for:

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience in a production SaaS environment.

  • Strong experience building backend services in a modern language (e.g. Go, Node.js, Ruby, or Python).

  • Deep experience with React and/or TypeScript in customer-facing web applications.

  • Strong understanding of instrumentation, analytics, and defining meaningful success metrics.

  • Ability to operate autonomously, drive initiatives forward, and influence technical direction.

  • Strong collaboration skills and a growth mindset.

Bonus points for:

  • Demonstrated experience leading or significantly contributing to experimentation-driven product development.

  • Familiarity with analytics platforms (e.g., Amplitude, Looker, Qualtrics).

  • Experience working in security- or compliance-sensitive domains.


What you can expect:

  • Shape and evolve our experimentation platform (feature flags, instrumentation, data quality, reporting loops).

  • Lead the design and implementation of experiments that drive activation, engagement, and expansion.

  • Partner closely with product, design, and data to refine hypotheses, define measurable outcomes, and interpret results.

  • Balance rapid iteration with long-term architectural health and security.

  • Raise the bar for code quality, observability, and performance across the team.

  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, and pairing.

  • Identify technical opportunities to unlock new growth mechanisms.

  • See your work directly influence measurable customer and business outcomes.

USA-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $153,000 USD and $214,000 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

Canada-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $144,000 CAD and $202,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs.

At 1Password, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.


Our culture
At 1Password, we prioritize collaboration, clear and transparent communication, receptiveness to feedback, and alignment with our core values: keep it simple, lead with honesty, and put people first.

You’ll be part of a team that challenges the status quo, and is excited to experiment and iterate in search of the best solution. That said, 1Password is not for everyone. Our work is demanding, we strive for excellence, and the pace is fast. We need people who are keen to take on challenging problems, who seek feedback to grow, and who are driven to make an impact. If you're looking for a place where you can settle into a comfortable routine, this might not be the right fit for you. We’re looking for individuals who are proven experts in their fields, as well as those who are highly adaptable, can thrive in ambiguity and through change, are curious, and above all deliver results.

How we work with AI
We are committed to leveraging cutting-edge technology—including AI—to achieve our mission. We also understand that thinking critically about AI in its current forms will help us create better solutions for our customers and ourselves with its future forms, which will help us continue to close the gap between security and privacy and achieve our mission. We want team members at all levels to take the approach of actively learning AI best practices, identifying opportunities to apply AI in meaningful ways, and driving innovative solutions in their daily work. Embracing the future of AI isn't just encouraged—it's an essential part of how we will be successful at 1Password.

This approach extends to our hiring process—candidates are welcome to use AI tools responsibly and thoughtfully during the application process.

Our approach to remote work
We believe in the power of remote work, but recognize that in-person connection is important to help us achieve our mission. While we are a remote-first company, travel for in-person engagement is a part of almost all roles, and we require our employees to be ready and willing to take part. Frequency will depend on role and responsibilities, and may include, but is not limited to: annual department-wide offsites, team meetings, and customer/industry events.

What we offer
We believe in working hard, and rewarding that hard work through our benefits. While not an exhaustive list, here is a glance at what we currently offer:

Health and wellbeing
👶 Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
🩺 Competitive health benefits
🏝 Generous PTO policy

Growth and future
📈 RSU program for most employees
💸 Retirement matching program
🔑 Free 1Password account

Community
🤝 Paid volunteer days
🏆 Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
🌎 Remote-first work environment
*Some roles in our GTM team are currently being hired for in-person hybrid work in Toronto and Austin. These roles will specify on the posting.

You belong here.

1Password is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace that is built on trust, support and respect. We welcome all individuals and do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, citizenship, education, languages spoken or veteran status. Be yourself, find your people and share the things you love.

Accommodation is available upon request at any point during our recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please speak to your talent acquisition partner or email us at [email protected] and we’ll work to meet your needs.

Remote work is a part of our DNA. Given that our company was founded remotely in 2005, we can safely say we're experts at building remote culture. That said, remote work at 1Password does mean working from your home country. If you've got questions or concerns about this, your talent partner would be happy to address them with you.

Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check that may consist of prior employment verification, reference checks, education confirmation, criminal background, publicly available social media, credit history, or other information, as permitted by local law.

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